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

CHAPTER XV
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65.] Without disarming, the Maid and the knights returned to Orleans.

To celebrate the taking of Jargeau, the magistrates organised a public procession.

An eloquent sermon was preached by a Jacobin monk, Brother Robert Baignart.[1221] [Footnote 1221: Accounts of the town of Orleans at the end of _Le Journal du siege_, ed.

Charpentier and Cuissard, p.229.Le R.P.
Chapotin, _La guerre de cent ans, Jeanne d'Arc et les Dominicains_, Paris, 1889, 8vo, p.

82.] The inhabitants of Orleans presented the Duke of Alencon with six casks of wine, the Maid with four, the Count of Vendome with two.[1222] [Footnote 1222: A.de Villaret, _Campagne des Anglais_, proofs and illustrations, p.


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