[The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link book
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

INTRODUCTION
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Their description of the effect Jeanne produced upon them recalls Saint Martha's binding of the Tarascon beast.

Dunois in his evidence is very much occupied with miracles.

He points to this one as, to human reason, the most incomprehensible of all.

If he neither desired nor solicited this damsel, of this unique fact he can find but one explanation, it is that Jeanne was holy, _res divina_.

When Jean de Novelompont and Bertrand de Poulengy describe their sudden continence, they employ identical forms of speech, affected and involved.


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