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_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.307._Deux documents sur Jeanne d'Arc_ in _La revue bleue_, February 13, 1892.] After they had ridden twelve or thirteen miles in overpowering heat, and passed Saint-Sigismond on the left and got beyond Saint-Peravy, Captain Poton's sixty to eighty scouts reached a spot where the ground, which had been level hitherto, descends, and where the road leads down into a hollow called La Retreve.

They could not actually see the hollow, but beyond it the ground rose gently; and, dimly visible, scarcely two and a half miles away was the belfry of Lignerolles on the wooded plain known as Climat-du-Camp.

A league straight in front of them was the little town of Patay.[1282] [Footnote 1282: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

11, 71, 98.

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