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49, $1,000
Apparently she at least partially convinced him:
perhaps he felt that the military situation was
already so bad that nothing could make it much
worse. At any rate, he finally consented to her
proposals.
Joan was given a suit of shining white armor.
and white linen banner bearing the heur de-
World surrounded by adoring angels. Carrying
sword said to have been miraculously dug up
from the vicinity of the tomb of st. Catherine,
Joan set out for Orleans
Things happened rapidly after that.
Joan got into Orleans without trouble. She
began by going to the battlements and
haranguing the English soldiers, urging them
tain shouted back that she was an immoral
woman.
Joan calmly replied that her French troops
would in few days capture the position held
by this English captain and his men, and add
ed that the captain himself would be killed:
and a short time afterward it happened pre-
cisely as she had said
THIS struck q superstitious fear into the
hearts of the English; and when the French
followed 1t by more counter attacks from the
beleaguered city the English troops were driven
on and Orleans was free again.
Joan gave the enemy no respite. She beat
the English at Jargeau and Troyes drove them
from Patay and then took King Charles tn
Rheims and saw him duly crowned and an
nointed in the manner that French tradition
prescribed. The coronation took place in mid
July-barely two months from the date Of her
appearance at Orleans.
Then Joan sent her soldiers on "moppine
up" missions preparatory to an attack on Paris
itself. They drove the English from Laon and
scissors and Compeigne and Beauvais. and
France was set aflame with hope and patriotic
ardor for the cause Of King Charles
Naturally enough, the English leaders were
bitter against this peasant girl who had check.
mated their schemes. The Duke of Bedford.
regent Of England swore that Joan would be
burned alive If she ever fell into English hands.
To complicate matters the Burgundians-
who formerly had been defending the French
King-now tried to seize power themselves
Joan's army tried to take Paris in the Fan of
1929 and failed, Joan herself being severely
wounded In the thigh; and in the Spring Of 1880
she led her army into Compeigne, which was
being besieged by q strong Burgundian force.
Here her Nemesis caught up with her. Lead
ing sally from the city Joan and her detach-
ment got separated from the main body of
French troops, and the Burgundans seized her.
pulled her from her horse and turned her over
to John Of Luxembourg one of the chief heuten.
ants OF the Duke Of Burgundy, to dispose Of
as he saw At.
HE question now arose-what to do with herr
The Burgundians had her; the English
wanted her, with feverish and bitter intensity
Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais whose CITY
she had captured, also wanted to take charge
Oh ner The University Of Paris, traditional foe
or the French Valois Kings asked that she bN
given to 1t for trial
While these claims and counter claims were
being considered the Duke Of Burgundy took
vuifI 80
% Croton and to Beaurevoir
Az Beaurevoir she tried to escape by makimm
rope OF bed clothing and letting herself down
rom her window, but she fell and was badly
1urt and her escape was foiled. Thereafter
NE was more closely guarded
Finally the English Duke Of Bedford having
applied the screws to his French subjects came
Onward with $4,000 in gold coin, in consid-
ration OF which the Duke of Burgundy turned
oan over to the English
She was loaded with chains and taken til
eouen where she was put in O strong tower.
named ~ the hands. feet and neck, and
uarded constantly BY three English troopersI
st the devil appear from nowhere and release
er.
NOW Joan, by all the rules Of war vaG n
rtsoner OF war and should have been treated
such. But King Charles whose throne siao
al saved. did not turn over his hand to save
er, although he then held as prisoner or,a
Aouo AkSnSu OEnceE, 1of whose
,iease the English might have been willing tn
'iease JOAN But Charles did nothing and thu
ng- announced English plan to burn her a =
Itch went forward.
HOWEVER. Joan could not be burned out Of
hand. The proper formalities had to ba
'served. Some one had to try her And this
ERE ceuchon, the disgrmtled Bishop az
eauvaass was ready and eager to do It. So, iR
COatSRHed on Fourteenth Ruoe