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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XIII
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Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, p.78.Perceval de Cagny, p.145.

Eberhard Windecke, p.173.Monstrelet, vol.iv, p.321.Morosini, vol.iii, pp.
31 _et seq._] Jeanne moved to pity wept over the soul of Glassidas and over the souls of those drowned with him.[1097] The captains, who were with her, likewise grieved over the death of these valiant men, reflecting that they had done the French a great wrong by being drowned, for their ransom would have brought great riches.[1098] [Footnote 1097: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

110 (Pasquerel's evidence).] [Footnote 1098: _Journal du siege_, p.

87.] Having escaped from the French on the bulwark, across the burning planks the six hundred were set upon by the French on the bridge.

Four hundred were slain, the others taken.


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