(1) She was, however, acquainted with the simpler byword,
that France should be destroyed by a woman and afterwards
redeemed by a virgin, which she quoted to several persons on
her first setting out.

(2) I have to thank Mr. Andrew Lang for making the course of
these events quite clear to myself.

(3) Mr. Andrew Lang thinks that this appearance at Toul was
made after she had finally left Domremy, and when she was
already accompanied by the escort which was to attend her to
Chinon.

(4) Mr. Andrew Lang will not hear of this. He thinks the man
was a mere King's messenger with news, probably charged with
the melancholy tidings of the loss at Rouvray (Battle of the
Herrings): and that the fact he did accompany Jeanne and her
little part was entirely accidental.

(5) Her brother Pierre is said by some to have been of the
party. _La Chronique de la Pucelle_ says two of her
brothers. Mr. Andrew Lang, however, tells us that Pierre did
not join his sister's party till much later--in the
beginning of June: and this is the statement of Jean de
Metz. But Quicherat is also of opinion that they both fought
in the relief of Orleans.