The two priests went to the man and told him that the King had appointed them to hear him.

At this announcement, despairing of ever seeing King John, and trusting to the Confessor and the chaplain not to reveal his secret to any but the King, he uttered these words: "While I was alone in the fields, a voice spake unto me three times, saying: 'Go unto King John of France and warn him that he fight not with any of his enemies.' Obedient to that voice am I come to bring the tidings to King John." Having heard the vavasour's secret the confessor and the chaplain took him to the King, who laughed at him.

With his comrades-in-arms he advanced to Poitiers, where he met the Black Prince.

He lost his whole army in battle, and, twice wounded in the face, was taken prisoner by the English.[647] [Footnote 647: S.Luce, _Chronique des quatre premiers Valois_, Paris, 1861, in 8vo, pp.

46, 48.] The ecclesiastics, who had examined Jeanne, held various opinions concerning her.