Identifier: somefamouswome00crei (find matches)
Title: Some famous women
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Creighton, Louise, 1850-1936
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Publisher: London : Longmans
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e king seemed to those who were watching to rejoice at what he heard, but he was always slow to move. He had to wait and consult many people and test the Maid in many ways to find out whether he might trust her, before he would let her do as she wished. In vain Jeanne prayed and wept, longing to be allowed to bring help to the people of Orleans. She was taken to the city of Poitiers and questioned by learned men. She was so bothered by their many questions that when one asked, Do you believe in God ? she answered, More firmly than 3^ou do. It was six weeks before it was decided that she might be trusted,and allowed to go to Orleans. Then a suit of steel armour was made for her. She wished to wear a special sword which she said that her voices had told her would be found behind the altar at a little church near Tours. It was found as she had said, covered with rust, which however came off easily when they began to clean it. The people of Tours gave her two splendid JEANNE DARC, THE MAID OF FRANCE 43
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44 SOME FAMOUS WOMEN sheaths, one of red velvet and one of cloth of gold for the sword. In her hand she carried her standard,which was white, with angels painted on it and the motto Jesus Maria. She never used her sword and never killed anyone herself. Several men were chosen as her attendants and her two brothers joined her. When Jeanne was with the army, twice every day she gathered the priests who were there round her banner, and they prayed and sang hymns; men learnt to behave better for her presence. As she neared Orleans, Dunois one of the chief men in the French army, came out to meet her, and said that he was right glad of her coming. With him she made her way into Orleans past the English army. She entered the city by night lest the crowd should be too great; but many bearing torches came to meet her, and men, women, and children pressed lovingly around her. Her business now was to attack the forts which the English had built outside the town. But before she would allow this to be done, sh

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