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 incised slab, which bears an inscription:  Ce que estait le harnais de Jehanne par elle baille en hommage a monseigneur Sainct-Denis. On 7 September 1429 Jeanne was wounded in an engagement near Paris, and shortly after she offered arms and armour at the altar of St. Denis. Her acknowledgment of this is given in the record of her private examination on March 17th, 1431. She was asked what arms she offered to St. Denis, and replied, 'A whole complete suit of white armoury as for a man of arms and a sword won before Paris.'  "The armour which she offered at St. Denis was taken by the English when they pillaged the church shortly after, and was sent to the King of England. Of its subsequent history we know nothing."

Fig. 1046. Italian (Milanese), School of Negroli, first quarter of the XVIth century. G 178, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris "He [Monsieur Roessler] does not seem to have referred to the Monographie de l'église royale de Saint-Denis, written by Guilhermy in 1848. On page 177 the author writes as follows: 'La restaurateur de Saint Denis s'est arrogé le droit d'ériger des monuments nouveaux dans l'église royale, sans songer qu'elle donnait par là un démenti à l'histoire Nous ne saurions comment qualifier, en restant dans les bornes de la politesse, le soi-disant trophée de Jeanne la Pucelle. Sur une grande dalle  on a fait graver en creux le dessin d'une armure conservée au Musée a artillerie de Paris, qui avait été désignée par les ignorants comme