294 _et seq._] [Footnote 1104: _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

163.] Jeanne was brought back to Jacques Boucher's house, where a surgeon again dressed the wound she had received above the breast.

She took four or five slices of bread soaked in wine and water, but neither ate nor drank anything else.[1105] [Footnote 1105: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

295.] On the morrow, Sunday, the 8th of May, being the Feast of the Appearance of St.Michael, it was announced in Orleans, in the morning, that the English issuing forth from those western bastions which were all that remained to them, were ranging themselves before the town moat in battle array and with standards flying.

The folk of Orleans, both the men-at-arms and the train-bands, greatly desired to fall upon them.