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

CHAPTER XIV
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Lafontaine, _De Johanne Gersonio puerorum adulescentiumque institutore...._ La Chapelle-Montligeon, 1902, in 8vo.] The deliverance of the city of Orleans must have gladdened the heart of the old Orleanist partisan.

The Dauphin's Councillors, eager to set the Maid to work, had told him of the deliberations at Poitiers, and asked him, as a good servant of the house of France, for his opinion concerning them.

In reply he wrote a compendious treatise on the Maid.
In this work he is careful from the first to distinguish between matters of faith and matters of devotion.

In questions of faith doubt is forbidden.

With regard to questions of devotion the unbeliever, to use a colloquial expression, is not necessarily damned.


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