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

CHAPTER VII
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Did Brother Seguin so understand it?
His contemporaries represented him as being of a somewhat bitter disposition.

On the contrary, there is reason to believe that he was good-natured.[767] [Footnote 767: It seems to have been the fate of the inhabitants of Limousin to be jeered at by the French of Champagne and of l'Ile de France.

After Brother Seguin we have the student from Limousin to whom Pantagruel says: "Thou art Limousin to the bone and yet here thou wilt pass thyself off as a Parisian." It is the lot of M.de Pourceaugnac.
La Fontaine, in 1663, writes from Limoges to his wife that the people of Limousin are by no means afflicted; neither do they labour under Heaven's displeasure "as the folk of our provinces imagine." But he adds that he does not like their habits.

It would seem that at first Brother Seguin was annoyed by Jeanne's mocking vivacious repartees.
But he cherished no ill-will against her.

"The Limousin's good nature does not permit the endurance of any unfriendly feeling," says Abel Hugo in _La France pittoresque: Haute-Vienne_.


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