Vulgar words in Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death (Page 1)
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It is strange to add that, judging by ordinary rules, the garrison of Orleans ought to have been quite sufficient in itself in numbers and science of war, to have beaten and dispersed the English force which had thus succeeded in shutting them in; there were many notable captains among them, with Dunois, known as the Bastard of Orleans, one of the most celebrated and brave of French generals, at their head.
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"Are you the Bastard of Orleans?" she said.
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"What," he cried, "is the advice of this hussy from the fields (_une péronnelle de bas lieu_) to be taken against that of a knight and captain!
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Wise men and buffoons alike dragged him down into that paltry abyss, the one always counselling caution, the other inventing amusements.
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To-day M. d'Alençon, the Bastard of Orleans, and Gaucourt were to leave Selles, following the Maid.
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There is given a long list of generals who surrounded and accompanied him, three or four princes of the blood, the Bastard of Orleans, the Archbishop of Rheims, marshals, admirals, and innumerable seigneurs, among whom was our young Guy de Laval who wrote the letter to his "mothers" which we have already quoted and whose faith in the Maid we thus know; and our ever faithful La Hire, the big-voiced Gascon who had permission to swear by his _bâton_, the d'Artagnan of this history.
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She also added that if she said God had not sent her she would damn herself, for true it was that God had sent her.