[A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele]@TWC D-Link bookA Short History of France CHAPTER IX 17/20
But the maid going straight to him, said: "Gentle dauphin, I come to restore to you the crown of France. Orleans shall be saved by me.
And you, by the help of God and my Lady St.Catharine, shall be crowned at Rheims." On the 29th of April the maid did enter the fainting city.
And she did lead the dauphin to Rheims for his coronation.
And then, kneeling at his feet, asked the "Gentle King" to let her go back to her sheep at Domremy.
"For," she said, "they love me more than these thousands of people I have seen." Unhappily, she did not return to her sheep, but remained among those wolves, and was captured and a prisoner of the English. What should they do with this strange being, claiming supernatural powers? The Regent Duke of Bedford denounced her as a rebel against the infant king; and the Bishop of Beauvais as a blasphemer and child of the devil.
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