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=== March 17 === | |||
Asked why here battle standard was given a prominent place at the coronation of Charles VII at Reims, Joan replied,<ref>Murray, p. 93</ref><blockquote>It had shared the pain, it was only right it should share the honour.</blockquote> | |||
May 9: threatening to torture her over what it considered her lies, "Then she was told that, if she would not tell the truth, she would immediately be put to the torture, the instruments of which were here, in this same tower, under her eyes." Joan replied,<ref>Jeanne D‘arc, by T. Douglas Murray_The Trials_The Project Gutenberg, p. 118</ref><blockquote>Truly if you were to tear me limb from limb, and separate soul and body, I will tell you nothing more; and, if I were to say anything else, I should always afterwards declare that you made me say it by force.</blockquote> | May 9: threatening to torture her over what it considered her lies, "Then she was told that, if she would not tell the truth, she would immediately be put to the torture, the instruments of which were here, in this same tower, under her eyes." Joan replied,<ref>Jeanne D‘arc, by T. Douglas Murray_The Trials_The Project Gutenberg, p. 118</ref><blockquote>Truly if you were to tear me limb from limb, and separate soul and body, I will tell you nothing more; and, if I were to say anything else, I should always afterwards declare that you made me say it by force.</blockquote> | ||