Footnote 625
From "Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris": "In truth, the Franciscan who preached at the Innocents, who had drawn so many people to his sermons, as said before, he was in truth riding with them [i.e., Jehanne's army], and as soon as the people of Paris were certain that he was thus riding [with them], and that by his speech he was turning the cities which had sworn loyalty to the Regent of France [Bedford] or to his lieutenants, they cursed him by God and His saints; and what is worse, the games of backgammon, bowls, dice, in short all the other games which he had forbidden them, they resumed [these games] out of contempt for him, and they even gave up a tin medallion upon which was imprinted the name of Jesus, which he had convinced them to adopt, and all of them wore the Cross of St. Andrew." (For the original language, see: Michaud & Poujoulat's "Nouvelle Collection des Mémoires pour servir l'Histoire de France", Ser. I Vol. III, p. 255).
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