“I rode back from Nancy to Vaucouleurs to check on Robert de Baudricourt and to spur him along a bit. The Duke of Lorraine was not going to equip me to go into France, so it was time to put the pressure on Robert,” Joan continued her story.
“When was this?”
“It was February 12, 1429. I went straight to Baudricourt and told him that the Dauphin’s army had suffered a defeat near Orléans that very day.”
“In those days, with no radio or other means of communication, how could you have known that?”
“I just did. It just came to me the way the voices did. Anyway, I told Robert there would be more defeats unless he sent me on my mission.”
“And did he?”
“No, not right away. The news of the defeat was brought to him by messenger a few days later. That’s when he decided to sit up and take notic
