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.