Footnote 379

From the deposition of the Duke of Alençon: "... I was not present [at the siege]... but afterwards I saw the fortresses before the town of Orleans and inspected these fortresses, which I believe to have been captured through a miracle rather than by arms, particularly the fortress of the Tournelles [Tourelles] at the end of the bridge, and the fortress of the Augustinians, in which, if I were [there] with a mere handful of soldiers, I would have gladly dared to wait out any armed force for six or seven days, and it seems to me that they would not have taken me; and, according to what I heard said by the soldiers and captains who were there, they attributed the deeds at Orleans to a miracle of God, and that they were not done by the efforts of men but rather came from above..."
For the relevant section of his testimony as it appears in the original, see DuParc's "Procès en Nullité...", Vol I, pp. 382 - 383.
For translations, see Oursel's "Les Procès de Jeanne d'Arc", p. 287, and Pernoud's "The Retrial of Joan of Arc", pp. 137 - 138.

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