Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured (55 page)

19
“In a dark time of cruel confusion”: Ibid., 7.

20
“We are soldiers of God”: Ibid., 9.

21
Joan “did not like”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 85.

22
“Do you know”:
Péguy, Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
, 36–38.

23
“loved her very dearly”: Ibid., 81.

24
“When she went away”: Ibid., 82.

25
“All I know”: Ibid., 84.

26
“No eggs! No eggs!!”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 1.

27
“There is no milk”: Ibid., 3.

28
“I heard it said”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 87.

29
“What are you doing here”: Ibid., 96.

30
“Before mid-Lent”: Ibid.

31
“for that she was born”: Ibid., 100.

32
“sought him and would have kept him”: Luke 4:43.

33
“I had great trust”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 98.

34
“I believed in what she said”: Ibid., 99.

35
“reading and writing in French”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 53.

36
“We have not nurtured and cherished”: Goldstone,
The Maid and the Queen
, 70.

37
“I saw Robert de Baudricourt”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 98–99.

38
“all good Christians”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 185.

39
“I asked her”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 96–97.

40
“some people of Vaucouleurs”: Ibid., 97.

41
“infinity of hats”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 20–21.

42
“attributes sublime virtues”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 49.

43
“God, the theory went”: Duby,
History of Private Life
, 569.

44
“It was characteristic of the time”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 91.

45
“Mark what I say”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 95.

46
“If a woman could”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 127.

47
“warlike thoughts”: Schiller,
Joan of Arc
, 136.

48
“the primordial feat of arms”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 56.

49
A sacred vessel: Loomis,
Grail
, 152.

50
Galahad wore flaming red armor: Campbell,
Power of Myth
, 249.

51
Saint Joseph of Arimathea: Matthew 27:57–60; Mark 15:43–46; Luke 23:50–54; John 19:38–41.

52
“about four parts in five”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 62.

53
“the worst conceivable crime”: Gies,
Knight in History
, 125.

54
“massacre and torture”: Ibid., 43.

55
“Dismembered bodies lay”: Ibid.

56
“he was sinning”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 123.

57
“She was very bold”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 255.

58
“It’s no good”: Anouilh,
Lark
, trans. Fry, 16.

59
“If God didn’t mean”: Ibid., 9.

60
“I would much prefer to stay”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 96.

61
“I am a soldier”: Shaw,
Saint Joan
, 45.

Chapter IV: The King’s Treasure

1
“I was sent for this purpose”: Luke 4:43.

2
Joan of Arc Leaving Vaucouleurs
: 1887, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans.

3
“the mother of her country”: Acocella,
Twenty-Eight Artists
, 510.

4
“A mother bears children”: Ibid.

5
“a contemporary debate between”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 157.

6
“traveled in Joan’s region”: Larissa Juliet Taylor,
Virgin Warrior
, 19.

7
“to arm her because she knew”: Warner,
Joan of Arc
, 90.

8
“In God’s name, Robert de Baudricourt”: Twain,
Personal Recollections
, 53.

9
“French knights [who] continued”: Richey,
Joan of Arc
, 16.

10
“No member of the noble class”: Ibid., 15.

11
“the noble-born English knights”: Ibid., 20.

12
“individualistic glory-seekers”: Ibid.

13
“no roads and no bridges”: Michelet,
Joan of Arc
, 17.

14
“some soldiers who had gone”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 112.

15
“heard it said”: Ibid., 122.

16
“Joan’s intimates say”: Ibid., 119–20.

17
“I afterward heard the men”: Ibid., 124.

18
“We escorted her”: Ibid., 98.

19
“Le Berger was spared”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 256 n.

20
“a virtual temporal state”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 26.

21
“fetters, shackles, balls”: Warner,
Joan of Arc
, 163.

22
“was going into the royal lodgings”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 182.

23
“most faithfully records”: Preminger,
Saint Joan
, 107.

24
“because of that letter”: Ibid., 108.

25
“There is nothing in that court”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 26.

26
“pressed in the King’s name”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 108.

27
“And while the generals discussed”: Schiller,
Joan of Arc
, 153–54.

28
“moral, serious, and ethical”: Fraioli,
Joan of Arc
, 12–13.

29
“a respected but entirely independent”: Ibid., 17.

30
“make himself ridiculous in the eyes”: Ibid., 18–19.

31
“French people of all ages”: Gastyne,
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d’Arc.

32
“crowds of people”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 23.

33
“through the territory of the King’s enemies”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 108.

34
“There is something strange”: Anouilh,
Lark
, adapt. Hellman, 25.

35
“When the King learned”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 108.

36
“appeared before His Royal Majesty”: Ibid., 116.

37
“a black doublet”: Gies,
Joan of Arc
, 48.

38
“If he can make three”: Anderson,
Joan of Lorraine
, 27.

39
“The Maid talked with our lord”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 162.

40
“After hearing her”: Ibid., 108.

41
“humble silent request in prayer”: Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc
, 24.

42
“When Joan came to find the King”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 153.

43
“After dinner the King went”: Ibid.

44
“I saw her completely covered”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 93.

45
“When the King had seen and heard”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 116.

46
“When Joan came to the King”: Ibid., 182.

47
“keep personal watch over Joan”: Ibid., 161.

48
“The Queen said and told”: Ibid., 163.

49
“I lived in that tower with Joan”: Ibid., 175.

50
Their tax-exempt status: Gies,
Knight in History
, 196.

51
“the King’s prosecutors dragged”: Tuchman,
Distant Mirror
, 42.

52
Herod’s incestuous marriage: Herod had abandoned his own wife to poach his brother’s. Mark 6:17–18.

53
all four of the Gospels: Matthew 26:24–25; Mark 14:18–21; Luke 22:21–23; John 18:4.

54
“For many bore false witness against him”: Mark 14:56–59.

55
Once crowned, Charles: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 15.

56
“she appeared to have studied”: Ibid., 110.

57
Sola cum multis
: Fraioli, Joan of Arc, 49.

58
“Besides myself”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 112.

59
“a gathering of the finest”: Fraioli,
Joan of Arc
, 48.

60
“Ask Who, What, Why”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 14.

61
“By following Holy Writ”: Ibid., 73.

62
“soul must be probed”: Fraioli,
Joan of Arc
, 45.

63
“Afterward, when she was taking her meal”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 154.

64
“oldest remaining considerable fragment”:
New Oxford Annotated Bible
, 298.

65
“Up; for this [is] the day”: Judges 4:14.

66
“a subtly planned anti-Semitic pogrom”:
New Oxford Annotated Bible
, 603.

67
equated piety with patriotism:
New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha
, 76.

68
“The Lord has struck”: Judith 13:15.

69
“Many will come in my name”: Mark 13:6.

70
“inclined toward a certain indecency”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 117.

71
“had been given to her”: 1 Corinthians 11:15.

72
“A woman shall not wear”: Deuteronomy 22:5.

73
“There is neither Jew”: Galatians 3:28.

74
“Adam was not deceived”: 1 Timothy 2:14.

75
“no woman to touch”: Ibid., 2:12.

76
“I asked her again”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 113.

77
“You said the voice told you”: Ibid.

78
“In God’s name!”: Ibid.

79
“Heaven never helps the men”: Sophocles,
Tragedies and Fragments
, 2:165.

80
“What language do your voices speak?”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 113.

81
“God cannot wish us”: Ibid.

82
“I have not come to Poitiers”: Ibid.

83
“An evil and adulterous”: Matthew 12:39.

84
“I do not know A from B”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 118, 124.

85
“no evil is to be found”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 73.

86
“much pious belief”: Ibid., 80.

87
“In the end they agreed”: Anouilh,
Lark
, trans. Fry, 56.

88
“splendid apartment”: Sackville-West,
Saint Joan of Arc
, 122.

89
“he withdrew behind the others”: Pernoud,
Retrial of Joan of Arc
, 108.

90
“Because you have the cruelest face”: Brecht,
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
, 19.

91
“the same bows”: Craig Taylor,
Joan of Arc
, 250.

92
“fully adequate to express”: Huizinga,
Waning of the Middle Ages
, 191.

Chapter V: Who Is This Then, That Wind and Seas Obey?

1
“Who Is This Then”: Mark 4:41.