This peasant's career had begun like Jeanne's, but had come to a much more abrupt conclusion.

Jacques d'Arc's daughter had not been the first to say that revelations had been made to her concerning the war.

Periods of great distress are the times when inspired persons most commonly appear.

Thus it came to pass that in the days of the Plague and of the Black Prince the vavasour of Champagne heard a voice coming forth from a beam of light.
While he was at work in the fields the voice had said to him: "Go thou, and warn John, King of France, that he fight not against any of his enemies." It was a few days before the Battle of Poitiers.[332] [Footnote 332: _Chronique des quatre premiers Valois_, ed.

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