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

CHAPTER III
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xxv _et seq._] Of his morals and manner of life we know nothing, except that three years before he had sworn a vile oath and been condemned to pay a fine of two _sols_.[400] Apparently when he took the oath he was in great wrath.[401] He was more or less intimate with Bertrand de Poulengy, who had certainly spoken to him of Jeanne.
[Footnote 400: _A sol tournois_ is the twentieth part of a _livre tournois_ (W.S.).] [Footnote 401: S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp.

cxc, 160, 161.] One day he met the damsel and said to her: "Well, _ma mie_, what are you doing here?
Must the King be driven from his kingdom and we all turn English ?"[402] [Footnote 402: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

435-457.

E.de Bouteiller and G.
de Braux, _Nouvelles recherches_, pp.


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