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As a prisoner, Joan of Arc's behaviour was as modest and courageous as it had been in her days of success and liberty. In the first times of her durance, d'Aulon, who, as we mentioned, had been captured at the same time, appears to have been allowed to remain with her.
Little by little the breeze strengthened; breathlessly we watched the gradual lifting of the silken standard, till, with an indescribably proud motion as though some spirit was infused into the lifeless silk it launched itself like a living thing against the tower wall. "It touches! It touches!" cried D'Aulon. "It touches! It touches!" we shouted in response. "It touches!
D'Aulon's evidence is one of the most complete of the entire set of testimonies. It was given, not at Rouen, but at Lyons, in 1456, before the Vice-Inquisitor, John Desprès. His depositions are remarkable in this, that, unlike those of the other witnesses, they are recorded in French, and not in Latin. Next to d'Aulon succeeds, in the chain of witnesses, Simon Beaucroix, aged fifty.
Yet she stood, waving her banner, and crying, "Tirez en avant, ils sont a nous," as was her way in every onfall. Seeing her thus in jeopardy, her maitre d'hotel, D'Aulon, though himself wounded in the heel so that he might not set foot to ground, mounted a horse, and riding up, asked her "why she abode there alone, and did not give ground like the others?"
They have spoken falsely of me, dear sister. I am no witch, but a poor girl who would fain do the commands of God." She sank on the settle with the relaxed limbs of utter fatigue. "I was happy when they told me there was a lady here. I bade Louis and Raymond and the Sieur d'Aulon leave me undisturbed till morning, for I would fain rest. Oh, but I am weary of councils! They are all blind.
"Disturb not my penitent, who is newly shrived, and about to pass"; and so speaking, he withdrew the bolt. D'Aulon strode in, dagger in hand, followed by the physician. "What make you here with doors barred, false priest?" he said, laying his hand on the frock of Noiroufle. "And what make you here, fair squire, with arms in a sick man's chamber, and loud words to disturb the dying?
We know very few details of her captivity. According to one chronicler, d'Aulon, her faithful friend and intendant, was with her at least in the former of those prisons, where at first she would appear to have been hopeful and in good spirits, if we may trust to the brief conversation between her and d'Aulon, which is one of the few details which reach us of that period.
The Great Bastard him of the ducal house, and governor of Orleans had been clamoring for weeks for Joan to be sent to him, and now came another messenger, old D'Aulon, a veteran officer, a trusty man and fine and honest.
Joan wanted to return to Paris, but the council sent her to take La Charité and Saint-Pierre-le-Moustier. This town she attacked first. Her squire, a gentleman named d'Aulon, was with her, and described what he saw. 'When they had besieged the place for some time, an assault was commanded, but, for the great strength of the forts and the numbers of the enemy, the French were forced to give way.
Now I had struggled through the throng on the island, some flying, some advancing, as each man's heart bade him, till I leaped into the water up to my waist and won the land. There I was running to the front of the fight when D'Aulon would have stopped me, for he had a command to hold a certain narrow way, lest the English should drive us to the water again.
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