But he did not suspect her of craftiness and he received her willingly.

She talked to him with the simplest familiarity.

She called him gentle Dauphin, and by that term she implied nobility and royal magnificence.[703] She also called him her _oriflamme_, because he was her _oriflamme_, or, as in modern language she would have expressed it, her standard.[704] The _oriflamme_ was the royal banner.

No one at Chinon had seen it, but marvellous things were told of it.

The _oriflamme_ was in the form of a gonfanon with two wings, made of a costly silk, fine and light, called _sandal_,[705] and it was edged with tassels of green silk.