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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER IX
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He granted her men to conduct her, not for her to conduct.

How could she have conducted them since she did not know the way?
Meanwhile she had a standard made according to the command of Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who had said: "Take the standard in the name of the King of Heaven!" It was of a coarse white cloth, or buckram, edged with silk fringe.

At the bidding of her Voices, Jeanne caused a painter of the town to represent on it what she called "the World,"[829] that is, Our Lord seated upon his throne, blessing with his right hand, and in his left holding the globe of the world.

On his right and on his left were angels, both painted as they were in churches, and presenting Our Lord with flowers de luce.

Above or on one side were the names Jhesus--Maria, and the background was strewn with the royal lilies in gold.[830] She also had a coat-of-arms painted: on an azure shield a silver dove, holding in its beak a scroll on which was written: "_De par le Roi du Ciel_."[831] This coat-of-arms she had painted on the reverse of the standard bearing on the front the picture of Our Lord.


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