She replied: "Fair Dauphin, my name is Jeanne the Maid; and the King of Heaven speaks unto you by me and says that you shall be anointed and crowned at Reims, and be lieutenant of the King of Heaven, who is King of France." She asked to be set about her work, promising to raise the siege of Orleans.[675] [Footnote 675: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.103._Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p.337._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.273.Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, pp.

67, 68.] The King took her apart and questioned her for some time.

By nature he was gentle, kind to the poor and lowly, but not devoid of mistrust and suspicion.
It is said that during this private conversation, addressing him with the familiarity of an angel, she made him this strange announcement: "My Lord bids me say unto thee that thou art indeed the heir of France and the son of a King; he has sent me to thee to lead thee to Reims to be crowned there and anointed if thou wilt."[676] Afterwards the Maid's chaplain reported these words, saying he had received them from the Maid herself.

All that is certain is that the Armagnacs were not slow to turn them into a miracle in favour of the Line of the Lilies.

It was asserted that these words spoken by God himself, by the mouth of an innocent girl, were a reply to the carking, secret anxiety of the King.