Orléans has loved Joan nearly uninterruptedly since she led the Armagnac forces in lifting the siege of the town and Micqueau's Aureliae Vrbis Memorabilis ab Anglis Obsidio, Anno 1428 makes much of her role. Hordal's Heroinae Nobilissimae  is even more laudatory, and firmly establishes Joan as a national heroine and a supporter of the King.

Jean-Louis Micqueau. Aureliae Vrbis Memorabilis ab Anglis Obsidio, Anno 1428. Et Ionnae viraginis Lotharingae res gestae. Orléans: Pierre Treperel, 1560. Howard Lehman Goodhart Fund.

Jean Hordal. Heroinae Nobilissimae Ioannae Darc Lotharingae vvlgo Avrelianensis pvellae historia, Ex variis grauissimae atque incorruptissimae fidei scriptoribus excerpta. Ponti-Mvssi: Melchior Bernard, 1612.

In Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, Dite la Pucelle d'Orleans (left) Lenglet Dufresnoy displays the rationalism of his time: he depends on original documents and says outright that he does not believe in Joan's voices as external, although he praises this "enthusiasm, this heroism, this burning spirit.

Nicholas Lenglet Dufresnoy. Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, Dite la Pucelle d'Orleans. 3 v. Amsterdam: Par la Compagnie, 1759.

" Chaussard's Jeanne d'Arc: Recueil Historique et Complet was written with an aggressively nationalistic and anti-clerical tone - in his annotated bibliography of original documents and early accounts related to Joan, he also raises a number of questions, including, "Was Joan a tool of the Church or of the court?" and "Is it true that this tragedy took place only as a prelude in France to the horrible inquisition, a path of fire and blood?". 

Pierre Jean-Baptiste Chaussard. Jeanne d'Arc: Recueil Historique et Complet. Orléans: Darnault-Maurant, 1806.