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

INTRODUCTION
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Voltaire, writing of Jeanne, jeered at the rascally monks and their dupes.

But if we quote the lines of _La Pucelle_, why not also the article[119] in the _Dictionnaire Philosophique_, which contains three pages of profounder truth and nobler thought than certain voluminous modern works in which Voltaire is insulted in clerical jargon?
[Footnote 119: Voltaire ed.

Beuchot, vol.xxvi.

_Cf._ also _Essai sur les moeurs_, chap.lxxx.

"Finally, being accused of having once resumed man's dress, which had been left near her on purpose to tempt her, her judges ...


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