Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
There is no allusion to either of these in any evidence of the time.
Footnote 74:
May, 1430.
Footnote 75:
Easter week, April 16th–23rd, 1430.
Footnote 76:
Jeanne says that her leap from the tower was “towards the end,” and as
the town of Compiègne was in great straits in October, she probably
made her attempt at escape towards the end of that month. The army of
relief under the Count de Vendôme started on October 25th, and the
siege was raised early in November.
Footnote 77:
The Minute inverts the order of this and the following question and
answer.
Footnote 78:
There is no fuller account of this attempt. It probably took place
during the month of July, and may have been the reason for her removal
to the stronger prison of Beaurevoir, early in August.
Footnote 79:
Henry VI. arrived in Rouen first on July 29th, 1430, when Jeanne was
at Beaulieu; he was crowned at Paris in the following November, and
returned to Rouen for Christmas, remaining there about six weeks, for
the date of his landing at Dover is given as February 11th. It is not
improbable that the prisoner may have seen the King, as they were both
residing in the same Castle, and her windows looked on the fields,
where he would probably take exercise.
Footnote 80:
“_Faceret unam aggressionem_;” _Gallicè_, “_une entreprise_.”
Footnote 81:
In the Minute: “_mesme le chaperon de femme_.”
Footnote 82:
In the Minute: “_et ne fait point de différence de celle qui est au
ciel et celle qui se appert à moi_.”
Footnote 83:
“Le vrai office de Monseigneur Saint-Michel est de faire grandes
révélations aux hommes en bas, en leur donnant moult sainct conseils.”
(“_Le Livre des Angeles de Dieu._”—MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris.)
Footnote 84:
In the Minute.
Footnote 85:
In the Minute: “_et toute voyes de tout, je m’en attendaye à Notre
Seigneur_.”
Footnote 86:
Given only in the Minute.
Footnote 87:
Guillaume Delachambre says that he was sent for by the Cardinal of
England and the Earl of Warwick to attend Jeanne, with Desjardins and
other Doctors; he was told by Warwick to give all attention to the
patient, “as the King would not for anything in the world, that she
should die a natural death; she had cost too dear for that; he had
bought her dear, and he did not wish her to die except by justice and
the fire.”
Footnote 88:
Nicolas Midi.
Footnote 89:
In the margin is written “_Superba responsio_.”
Footnote 90:
Jean de la Brosse, Marshal of France, called occasionally Marshal de
Boussac and de Saint Sevère, being lord of both these territories.
Footnote 91:
The Day of the Holy Cross, May 3rd.
Footnote 92:
The Minute adds: “in the evening.”
Footnote 93:
April 18th, May 2nd, 19th, and 23rd.
Footnote 94:
Against this passage is written, on the margin of the original MS.
note in the hand of the Registrar Manchon, ‘_Responsio Johannæ
superba_.’
Footnote 95:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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