Vulgar words in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 (Page 1)
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But Joan set herself the task of persuading him that the salvation of France took precedence of all minor things-even the commands of a sceptered ass; and she accomplished it.
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About ten o'clock D'Alencon, the Bastard of Orleans, La Hire, Pothon of Saintrailles, and two or three other generals came to our headquarters tent, and sat down to discuss matters with Joan.
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"Name of God, Bastard, Bastard!
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"It certainly has," observed the Bastard and La Hire.
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The duke and the Bastard wanted to follow, but Joan said: "Not yet-wait."
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It lifted the duke and the Bastard in their saddles to see it; and they turned, trembling with excitement, to Joan, saying: "Now!"
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After these followed the Bastard of Orleans, the Marshal de Boussac, and the Admiral of France.
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Through all the din one could hear shouts all along that told you where two of them were: "Live the Bastard of Orleans!"
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Yes, it stood the strain of the King's gracious speech; and of D'Alencon's praiseful words, and the Bastard's; and even La Hire's thunder-blast, which took the place by storm; but at last, as I have said, they brought a force to bear which was too strong for her.
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Once, talking with her good old faithful friend and servant, the Bastard of Orleans, she said: "Ah, if it might but please God to let me put off this steel raiment and go back to my father and my mother, and tend my sheep again with my sister and my brothers, who would be so glad to see me!"
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And this was continued-as we learned later-until she fell into the hands of that bastard of Satan, Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais.
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Our reading of the prophecy was this: We believed the King's soul was going to be smitten with remorse; and that he would privately plan a rescue with Joan's old lieutenants, D'Alencon and the Bastard and La Hire, and that this rescue would take place at the end of the three months.
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Our desire, abetted by our imagination, turned those nine hundred monks into Joan's old campaigners, and their Abbot into La Hire or the Bastard or D'Alencon; and we watched them file in, unchallenged, the multitude respectfully dividing and uncovering while they passed, with our hearts in our throats and our eyes swimming with tears of joy and pride and exultation; and we tried to catch glimpses of the faces under the cowls, and were prepared to give signal to any recognized face that we were Joan's men and ready and eager to kill and be killed in the good cause.
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The Bastard of Orleans and D'Alencon and D'Aulon lived to see France free, and to testify with Jean and Pierre d'Arc and Pasquerel and me at the Rehabilitation.
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It examined the records of Joan's trials, it examined the Bastard of Orleans, and the Duke d'Alencon, and D'Aulon, and Pasquerel, and Courcelles, and Isambard de la Pierre, and Manchon, and me, and many others whose names I have made familiar to you; also they examined more than a hundred witnesses whose names are less familiar to you-the friends of Joan in Domremy, Vaucouleurs, Orleans, and other places, and a number of judges and other people who had assisted at the Rouen trials, the abjuration, and the martyrdom.
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It was beautiful to hear the Duke d'Alencon praise Joan's splendid capacities as a general, and to hear the Bastard indorse these praises with his eloquent tongue and then go on and tell how sweet and good Joan was, and how full of pluck and fire and impetuosity, and mischief, and mirthfulness, and tenderness, and compassion, and everything that was pure and fine and noble and lovely.