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When Domremy was burned, Joan would go to church at Greux, 'and there was not a better girl in the two towns. A priest, who had known her, called her 'a good, simple, well-behaved girl. Jean Waterin, when he was a boy, had seen Joan in the fields; 'and when they were all playing together, she would go apart, and pray to God, as he thought, and he and the others used to laugh at her.
The prisoner, kneeling, laid her hands upon them, and swore to speak the truth in what was asked her as regarded matters of faith. 'What is your name? asked Cauchon. J. 'In my home I was called Jeannette. Since I came to France I was called Joan. I have no surname. C. 'Where were you born? J. 'At Domremy, near Greux. The principal church is at Greux. C. 'What are your parents' names?
Well favoured by nature was the birthplace of Joan of Arc, with its woods of chestnut and of oak, then in their primeval abundance. The vine of Greux, which was famous all over the country-side as far back as the fourteenth century, grew on the southern slopes of the hills about Joan's birthplace.
"In the register of the Exchequer," says M. Blaze de Bury, "at the name of the parish of Greux and Domremy, the place for the receipt is blank, with these words as explanation: a cause de la Pucelle, on account of the Maid." There could not have been a more delightful reward or one more after her own heart.
After these three god-mothers, came to give their evidence her god-fathers. Four of these appear John Rainguesson, John Barrey, John de Langart, and John Morel de Greux. Of these four god-fathers, only the last one seems to have been called to give evidence; he was in his seventieth year.
Her father and uncle were lodged at the public cost as benefactors of the kingdom, as may still be seen by the inscription on the old inn in the great Place at Rheims; and when Jacques d'Arc left the city he carried with him a patent better than one of nobility which, however, came to the family later of exemption for the villages of Domremy and Greux of all taxes and tributes; "an exemption maintained and confirmed up to the Revolution, in favour of the said Maid, native of that parish, in which are her relations."
Their cattle were safe, for they had been driven to Neufchâteau, but when Joan looked from her father's garden to the church, she saw nothing but a heap of smoking ruins. She had to go to say her prayers now at the church of Greux. These things only made her feel more deeply the sorrows of her country.
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