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

CHAPTER II
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The result of the dispute is not known; but it is sufficient to note that Jeanne's father saw Sire Robert and had speech with him.[319] [Footnote 319: S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp.

cliv, clv, clvi, 97, 359 _et seq._; _La France pendant la guerre de cent ans_, p.

287.] On his return home he must have more than once related these interviews, and told of the manners and words of so great a personage.
And doubtless Jeanne heard many of these things.

Assuredly she must have pricked up her ears at the name of Baudricourt.

Then it was that her dazzling friend, the Archangel Knight, came once more to awaken the obscure thought slumbering within her: "Daughter of God," he said, "go thou to the Captain Robert de Baudricourt, in the town of Vaucouleurs, that he may grant unto thee men who shall take thee to the gentle Dauphin."[320] [Footnote 320: _Trial_, vol.i, p.


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