634. Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3)

I went to her lodging to see her, and she sent for wine, and she told me that we would soon drink wine in Paris. It seemed to me a gift from heaven that she was there, and that I was seeing and hearing her. She left Selles on Monday, at the hour of Vespers, alongside a great body of armed men. I saw her mount her horse, arrayed all in white armour, with only her head bare and holding a small axe. The great black charger was very restive at her door, and would not let her mount.

Lead him? she said, to the cross which is in front of the church. And there she mounted, the horse standing still as if he had been bound. Then, turning towards the church which was close by, she said in a beautiful, feminine voice, You priests and people of the church, make processions and prayers to God for us. Then, turning to the road, forward, forward, she said.

Her unfolded standard was carried by a page. She had her small axe in her hand, and by her side rode a brother, who had joined her eight days before. So that's a letter written on the eighth of june, 1429, by a soft, tender hearted young nobleman, Guy de Laval. He's writing to his mother, and he is pumped.

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