Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.

Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 397 pages of information about Jeanne D'Arc.

Again questioned what her “voices” had said to her in respect to her attempts at escape, she again answered:  “This has nothing to do with the trial; I go back to the trial.  If all your questions were about that, I should tell you all.”  She said besides, on her faith, that she knew neither the day nor the hour when she should escape.  She was then asked what the voices said to her generally, and answered:  “In truth, they tell me I shall be freed, but neither the day nor the hour; and that I ought to speak boldly, and with a glad countenance.”  She was then asked whether, when first she saw her King, he asked her whether it was by revelation that she had assumed the dress of a man? she replied:  “I have answered this.  I cannot recollect whether he asked me.  But it is written in the book at Poitiers.”  Asked, whether the doctors who examined her there, some for a month, some for three weeks, had asked her about her change of dress; she answered:  “I don’t remember; but I know they asked me when I assumed the dress of a man, and I told them it was in the town of Vaucouleurs.”  Asked, whether these doctors had inquired whether it was her voices which had made her take that dress, answered, “I don’t remember.”  Asked if her Queen wished her to change her dress when she first saw her, answered, “I don’t remember.”  Asked if her King, Queen, and all of her party did not ask her to lay aside the dress of a man, she answered, “This has nothing to do with the trial.”  Asked, if the same was not requested of her in the castle of Beaurevoir, she answered:  “It is true.  And I replied that I could not lay it aside without the permission of God.”  She said further that the demoiselle of Luxembourg (aunt of Jeanne’s captor, and a very old woman) and the lady of Beaurevoir offered her a woman’s dress, or stuff to make one, and begged her to wear it; but she replied that she had not yet the permission of our Lord, and that it was not yet time.  Asked, if M. Jean de Pressy and others at Arras had offered her a woman’s dress, she answered, “He and others have often asked it of me.”  Asked, if she thought she would have done wrong in putting on a woman’s dress, she answered, that it was better to obey her sovereign Lord, that is, God; she said also that if she had done it, she would rather have done it at the request of these two ladies than of any other in France, except her Queen.  Asked, if, when God revealed to her that she should change her dress, it was by the voice of St. Michael, St. Catherine, or St. Margaret, she answered, “You shall hear no more about it.”  Asked, when the King first employed her, and her standard was made, whether the men-at-arms and others who took part in the war did not have flags imitated from hers? she answered, “It is well to know that the lords retained their own arms”; she also added that her brothers-in-arms made such pennons as pleased them.  Asked, how these were made, if they were of linen or cloth, answered, that they were of white satin,

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