Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured (56 page)

2
“peasant army”: “Royal Financial Records Concerning Payments for Twenty-Seven Contingents in the Portion of Joan of Arc’s Army Which Arrived at Orléans on 4 May 1429,” Joan of Arc: Primary Sources Series (Historical Academy for Joan of Arc Studies, 2006), online.

3
“To the Master Armorer”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 52.

4
“She was armed as quickly”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 224.

5
To furnish context: Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 52.

6
“the ‘steel’ used”:
www.oakeshott.org/metal.html
.

7
“handed down from grandfathers”: Gies,
Knight in History
, 145.

8
Contrary to the irresistible: Literally farcical, as its first known appearance was in
When Knights Were Bold
, by Harriett Jay (who used the male pseudonym Charles Marlowe), a British comedy first performed in 1907.

9
Experiments with genuine:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aams/hd_aams.htm#details
.

10
The open-faced
bascinet
:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aams/hd_aams.htm#details_b
.

11
“often went about”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 224.

12
“I never saw the man”: Joan told the examiner she “was at Tours or Chinon” when she sent for the sword—she didn’t remember which. That an “armorer of Tours” fetched the sword suggests she was in that city.

13
“sharp, two-edged sword”: Revelation 1:16.

14
“Do not think that I came”: Matthew 10:34.

15
“as a prize of war”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 51–52.

16
“chase a girl who was with the soldiers”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 160.

17
a battle sword typical:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aams/hd_aams.htm#weight_b
.

18
“All of them. In a mess of tears”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 34.

19
Jesus, too, was described: John 2:14–15.

20
“Do you not know”: 1 Corinthians 6:19.

21
“You think you have a right”: Brecht,
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
, 55.

22
“the virgin sword”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 52.

23
“Hauves Poulnoir”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 52.

24
A dove descended: Duby,
France in the Middle Ages
, 15.

25
likely inspired by the yellow iris: Pierre-Augustin Boissier de Sauvages,
Dictionnaire languedocien-françois
(1765), 253.

26
“astonished at his teaching”: Matthew 7:28–29.

27
“Go to the shrine at Puy”: Fleming,
Joan of Arc.

28
“I served her as chaplain”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 184.

29
“With all your sins”: Anouilh,
Lark
, adapt. Hellman, 43.

30
“King of England”: Joan’s “Letter to the English” is included in the record of the Trial of Condemnation. This translation is by W. P. Barrett.

31
These were the men: Fraioli,
Joan of Arc
, 73.

32
“a preemptive strike against”: Ibid., 76.

33
“Now you shall see what”: Exodus 6:1.

34
“Go and tell Talbot”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 28.

35
“not girl’s work”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 14.

36
“Oh, if I could speak”: Ibid., 16.

37
“wolves and … hyenas”: Twain,
Personal Recollections
, 100.

38
“the whole of France”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 146.

39
“told La Hire, whose habit”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 114.

40
“he might swear by his bâton”: Twain,
Personal Recollections
, 102.

41
“had a horror of the game”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 125.

42
It was a horror: Mark 15:24; Matthew 27:35.

43
“when we were in her company”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 144.

44
“Joan bade me assemble”: Ibid., 184.

45
“a heroic defense”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 75.

46
“Le feu! Le feu!”: Villemarqué,
Barzaz-Breiz
, 321.

47
“Whoever listened to the voice”: Twain,
Personal Recollections
, 103.

48
“When Joan departed from Blois”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 184–85.

49
“awoke bruised and weary”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 151.

50
“the lord de Villars, seneschal”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 134.

51
“rough band of looters and libertines”: According to Jean-José Frappa, the screenwriter of Gastyne’s
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d’Arc.

52
“immediately collected a great number”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 134.

53
“instead of going straight”: Ibid., 136.

54
“I answered that I and others”: Ibid.

55
“in actual fact it had”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 68–69.

56
“as a test for Joan”: Gondoin,
Joan of Arc and the Passage to Victory
, 40.

57
“many wagons and carts”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 70–71.

58
“shallow, rapid, but navigable”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 62.

59
“In God’s name”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 136.

Chapter VI: Surrender to the Maid

1
estimated twenty thousand: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 56.

2
“sallied out in great strength”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 74.

3
“begged her to agree”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 137.

4
“succeeded in rendering them”: “Royal Financial Records Concerning Payments for Twenty-Seven Contingents in the Portion of Joan of Arc’s Army Which Arrived at Orléans on 4 May 1429.”

5
“Her entrance was greatly desired”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 145.

6
“men, women, and small children”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 75.

7
“There was a very extraordinary rush”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 145.

8
“such was the press around her”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 166.

9
“been sent for the consolation”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 125.

10
“Who is going to give”: Péguy,
Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
, 22.

11
“Who was it that touched me?”: Luke 8:45–46.

12
“Jesus, your people are hungry”: Péguy,
Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
, 32.

13
“If their baseness”: Brecht,
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
, 29–30.

14
“Foxes have holes”: Matthew 8:20.

15
“still in so great a state”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 176.

16
“she would kill”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 77.

17
“went to see the Bastard”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 176.

18
“a certain bulwark”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 77.

19
“called the Bastard of Granville”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 176.

20
“absence of echeloned units”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 85.

21
“Since you pay more heed”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 172.

22
“written in her mother tongue”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 138.

23
“From that moment the English”: Ibid., 146.

24
“torture and burn her”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 77.

25
“left Orléans for Blois”: Ibid.

26
“the town militia”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 68.

27
“presented money and gifts”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 78.

28
“as soon as she learned”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 166.

29
“observed the rules that children”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 166–67.

30
“on a couch that was”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 166.

31
“Oh wicked boy!”: Ibid., 176.

32
“When I had harnessed”: Ibid.

33
“she never saw French blood”: Ibid., 167.

34
“she found many wounded”: Ibid., 186.

35
“By 1429 purchases of gunpowder”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 86.

36
“protectors and defenders”: Anonymous,
Lancelot of the Lake
, 52.

37
“The Franks there strike”: Anonymous,
Song of Roland
, 115.

38
“assault with very few”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 167.

39
“They’re dead”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 40–41.

40
“The voice of Heaven”: Schiller,
Joan of Arc
, 175.

41
“You men of England”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 84.

42
“She took an arrow”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 167.

43
“when the Maid and her people”: Ibid., 187.

44
“cross to a certain island”: Ibid., 168.

45
“the most imposing fortifications”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 62.

46
“to use the power”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 15.

47
“being ‘the most courteous’ ”: Gies,
Knight in History
, 165.

48
“managed to subordinate French notions”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 17.

49
“Any attack or charge”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 109.

50
“and many other knights”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 84.

51
“La Hire and the Maid”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 168.

52
“sallied out of the Tourelles”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 84.

53
“strong and harsh”: Ibid.

54
“majority of the enemy”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 168.

55
“Get up early tomorrow”: Ibid., 188.

56
“Seeing that the city”: Ibid.

57
“You have been to your council”: Ibid.

58
“Behold you scoffers, and wonder”: Acts of the Apostles 13:41; the Evangelist Luke is considered the author of Acts.

59
Habakkuk’s apocalyptic message: Habakkuk 1:5.

60
“The just shall live”: Ibid., 2:4.

61
“bloodiest military engagement”: DeVries,
Joan of Arc
, 87.

62
“spectacular assault during”: Ibid.

63
“rode up hastily”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 191–92.

64
“penetrated her flesh”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 138.

65
“When some soldiers saw her thus”: Ibid., 189.