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

CHAPTER IX
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La Romee may have received her surname for an entirely different reason.

Most of our knowledge of Jeanne's mother is derived from documents of very doubtful authenticity.] [Footnote 810: Francis C.Lowell considers the idea of La Romee's pilgrimage to Puy as a "characteristic example of the madness" of Simeon Luce (_Joan of Arc_, Boston, 1896, in 8vo, p.

72, note).
Nevertheless, after considerable hesitation, I, like Luce, have rejected the corrections proposed by Lebrun de Charmettes and Quicherat, and adopted unamended the text of the _Trial_.] Jeanne's comrades, having made friends with Pasquerel, said to him: "You must go with us to Jeanne.

We will not leave you until you have taken us to her." They travelled together.

Brother Pasquerel went with them to Chinon, which Jeanne had left; then he went on to Tours, where his convent was.
The Augustinians, who claimed to have received their rule from St.
Francis himself, wore the grey habit of the Franciscans.


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