The Maid and the Queen (45 page)

91
   
“The said English”:
Ibid., 16.

91
   
“There can be little doubt”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
35.

92
   
“France, ruined by a woman”:
[“Prophetisatum fuit quod Francia per mulierem deperderetur et per unam virginem de Marchiis Lotharingiae restauraretur.”] Quicherat,
Procès,
III, 83. See also Vale,
Charles VII,
50, footnote 4.

92
   
“a Maid [a virgin] would come”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
30.

C
HAPTER
7: The Angels Speak to Joan

94
   
“The first time that I heard the voice”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
23– 24.

95
   
“When I was thirteen years old”:
Ibid., 30.

95
   
“What made you cause… no promise whatever”:
Ibid., 23.

95
   
“I obeyed them [her parents] in all things”:
Ibid.

95
   
“The first time I had great doubt”:
Ibid., 31.

96
   
“How was it that you recognized… that it was him”:
Ibid.

96
   
“When I was still in the house”:
Ibid., 23.

97
   
“I believed it quite quickly”:
Ibid., 31.

97
   
“What doctrines… in the Kingdom of France”:
Ibid.

97
   
“We should not let any”:
[“que en icelle on ne laisse entrer aucunes gens d’armes plus fors que les gens de la ville, soit le Roy nostre sire, le président en sa compaignie, qui de lui a le principal gouvernement, ou autres de ses gouverneurs qui perturbent et empeschent la dicte paix, et lesquelx monseigneur de Richemont, connestable de France, et la dicte Royne entendent à mettre briefvement hors de la compaignie et gouvernement du Roy”] Beaucourt,
Histoire de Charles VII,
tome II, 95.

98
   
“a fat man of about forty”:
[“un gros homme d’une quarantaine d’années”] Lavisse,
Histoire de France Depuis les Origines,
tome quatrième, 25.

98
   
“Dear cousin”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
39– 40.

99
   
the duke of Bedford very publicly summoned a war council:
For more on the war council see Ramsay,
Lancaster and York,
378; also Stevenson,
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France,
vol. 2,
part 2
, 533.

99
   
“The voice told me”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
30.

99
   
“As for my father and my mother”:
Ibid., 32.

99
   
“I went to my uncle’s”:
Ibid., 32– 33.

100
   
“I went myself to fetch Joan”:
Ibid., 33.

100
   
“Joan the Maid came to Vaucouleurs”:
Ibid., 33– 34.

100
   
“This Robert several times told me”:
Ibid., 33.

101
   
the war intervened:
For more on the campaign in Champagne see Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story
, 17, and Stevenson,
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France,
vol. 2,
part 2
, 531, 535.

102
   
“the queen of Sicily and those whom she was pleased to designate”:
[“[I]ls demandaient que la reine de Sicile et ceux qui’il lui plairait de désigner, fussent chargés de veiller à l’exécution des délibérations prises.”] Beaucourt,
Histoire de Charles VII,
tome II, 166.

103
   
“How this Herry in the eight degree”:
McKenna, “Henry VI of England and the Dual Monarchy,” 153.

104
   
“never again had joy in her heart”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
44.

104
   
“at the beginning of the month of June”:
[“Au commencement du mois de juin, le duc de Bourgogne, ayant appris la guérison du roi.”]
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 2, 35.

104
   
“you are the son of a king”:
[“Tu es fils de roi.”] Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon,
207. Senneville remarks upon the similiarity between Yolande’s words and those used by Joan of Arc at her initial meeting with Charles.

104
   
“saying nothing, but begging God”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
52.

105
   
“I must be at the King’s side”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
35.

106
   
“the prosperity of the king’s arms”:
Wood,
Joan of Arc and Richard III,
138.

106
   
“The voice told me”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
30.

106
   
“At the time when Joan sought to leave the town”:
Ibid., 36.

107
   
“not thus that they should depart”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
18.

107
   
“The register of the Archives of La Meuse”:
France,
The Life of Joan of Arc,
vol. 1, 93, footnote 1.

108
   
“I saw Robert de Baudricourt”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
50.

108
   
“When Joan the Maid came”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
35.

108
   
“I asked her if she wanted to go in her own clothes”:
Ibid.

109
   
“The Duke of Lorraine required”:
Ibid., 38.

109
   
René sat in on this audience:
His biographer Margaret Kekewich wrote that René “probably saw her [Joan] when she presented herself… at Nancy early in 1429 and asked the duke to send him with men-at-arms to escort her into France.” Kekewich,
The Good King,
24. A. Lecoy de la Marche, René’s definitive biographer, citing primary documentation, also placed René in Nancy during this time period, and agreed that he was most likely present at this audience. See La Marche,
Le Roi René,
tome premier, 69.

109
   
“had told him [the duke] that he was behaving badly”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
38.

110
   
“Precisely because her assumptions accorded so well”:
Wood,
Joan of Arc and Richard III,
139.

110
   
“Robert twice refused and repulsed me”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
34.

111
   
“Robert de Baudricourt caused those”:
Ibid., 39.

C
HAPTER
8: Joan Meets the Dauphin

112
   
“
When I arrived at the town”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
15.

112
   
“because of the Burgundian and English soldiers”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
39.

113
   
“Afterwards I heard those who took her”:
Ibid.

113
   
“every night she lay down”:
Ibid., 39– 40.

113
   
“She never swore”:
Ibid., 40.

113
   
“The Maid always told us to have no fear”:
Ibid.

113
   
“I sent letters to my King”:
Ibid., 48.

114
   
“I know that, when Joan arrived in Chinon”:
Ibid., 48– 49.

114
   
“There is no evidence of opposition”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
50.

114
   
“Orliac [a noted French historian] assigns a major role”:
Kekewich,
The Good King,
25.

115
   
“When she [Joan] entered the castle”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
49.

115
   
“There were more than three hundred knights”:
Ibid., 47.

115
   
“When the King knew that she was coming”:
Ibid., 49.

115
   
“It was essential”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
51.

116
   
“When I entered my King’s room”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
46.

116
   
“I was myself present at the castle”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
22.

116
   
“when a messenger came to tell me”:
Ibid., 26.

116
   
“When [the king] saw her, he asked Joan her name”:
Ibid., 23.

117
   
“In God’s name”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
55– 56.

117
   
“the secret prayer”:
Wood,
Joan of Arc and Richard III,
148.

118
   
“I say to you, on behalf of the Lord”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
23.

118
   
“the king seemed radiant”:
Ibid.

118
   
“To introduce a prophetess to the impressionable Charles”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
50.

118
   
“Joan came to the king’s mass”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
27.

119
   
“Joan ran about charging with a lance”:
Ibid.

120
   
“I asked her what language”:
Ibid., 29.

120
   
“Finally, it was concluded”:
Ibid., 30.

120
   
“In her, Joan, we find”:
Ibid.

121
   
“I heard it said that Joan”:
Ibid., 30– 31.

121
   
“The Master’s report having been made”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
58– 59.

122
   
“on which was painted”:
Ibid., 60.

122
   
“An arms merchant of Tours”:
Ibid., 61– 62.

122
   
“Laden in the town of Blois”:
Ibid., 81.

123
   
Joan was by no means the only visionary:
For the number of people claiming visions in 1428 see Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon
, 204.

123
   
“
dressed in cloth-of-gold”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
36.

123
   
“I answered this Catherine”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
142.

123
   
“When Joan left Blois”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
38– 39.

C
HAPTER
9: The Maid of Orléans

125
   
“Jhesus-Maria, King of England”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
70.

126
   
“Really the
bastilles
were not to blame”:
Lang,
The Maid of France,
68.

127
   
“God knoweth by what advis”:
Ibid., 65.

128
   
“was rendered possible”:
Burne,
The Agincourt War,
238.

128
   
“‘Are you the Bastard of Orléans… the King of Heaven’”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
39– 40.

129
   
“Forthwith I had the sails hoisted”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
82.

129
   
“I then implored her”:
Ibid., 82.

129
   
“Came to receive her”:
Ibid., 83– 84.

130
   
“Joan went to see the Bastard”:
Ibid., 84.

130
   
“go away in God’s name”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
42.

130
   
“Glasdale and those of his company”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
84.

131
   
“It seems to me”:
Ibid., 82.

131
   
“Joan’s contribution”:
Burne,
The Agincourt War,
244.

131
   
“The fact that Fort St. Loup”:
Ibid., 240.

131
   
“Ah, bleeding boy”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
86.

132
   
“The English were preparing their defense”:
Ibid.

132
   
“She wept much upon them”:
Ibid., 86– 87.

132
   
“You, Englishmen, who have no right”:
Ibid., 87.

132
   
“Read, it is news!”:
Ibid.

132
   
“Joan began to sigh”:
Ibid.