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=== March 17: on the honor of her battle standard === | === March 17: on the honor of her battle standard === | ||
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>March 17: does God hate the English?<blockquote>" Do you know if Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret hate the English ? " | 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> | ||
=== March 17: does God hate the English? === | |||
<blockquote>" Do you know if Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret hate the English ? " | |||
*' They love what God loves : they hate what God hates." | *' They love what God loves : they hate what God hates." | ||
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** Of the love or hate God may have for the English, or of what He will do for their souls, I know nothing ; but I know quite well that they will be put out of France, except those who shall die there, and that God will send victory to the French against the English."<ref>Murray, p. 84</ref></blockquote> | ** Of the love or hate God may have for the English, or of what He will do for their souls, I know nothing ; but I know quite well that they will be put out of France, except those who shall die there, and that God will send victory to the French against the English."<ref>Murray, p. 84</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== March 27: Joan messing with a rather tedious interrogation === | |||
Joan was subjected to two days reading of the "Seventy Articles," or accusations against her. She was required to respond to each one, which was typically, as she did to Article V:<ref>Murray, p. 343</ref><blockquote>I refer to my previous answers. The rest, I deny.</blockquote>or simply, as to Article X,<ref>Murray, p. 345</ref><blockquote>I refer to what I said before.</blockquote>At the end of the first day, March 27, even interrogators were getting tired of it. For the last articles read that day, which regarded various letters she had written that the court possessed, she was asked, | |||
<blockquote>What have you to say on these Articles, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, which have been read to you with great care, from the first word to the last? <ref>Murray, p. 351</ref></blockquote><blockquote>I refer to what I answered on Article XXVI.</blockquote>"To Article XXVI she had responded, <blockquote>I refer to what I said before.</blockquote> | |||
=== May 9: best reply to a threat ever === | === May 9: best reply to a threat ever === |