“Joan, I haven’t tried to understand the origin of your voices. You believed in them, and I confess I’m more interested in what you did as a result of that faith. You accomplished amazing things for a peasant, a female and a teenager.”
“Yes. I had faith. There are many people who have heard voices, and their stories have also been documented. I can’t explain it, but those voices gave me the courage and the strength to do the things I did.
“From Melun, I went back to Lagny with Kennedy, Baretta and Ambroise, de Loré’s lieutenant. We had a minor success against a small English marauding party there. The group was led by a man called Franquet d’Arras. He had been in the service of the previous Duke of Burgundy as early as 1416 and had been on a marauding expedition into France with about th
