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nothing at all about it. Iam even igno- 
rant whether thofe who are on the King’s 
fide, believe me fent by Ged for the pur-— 
pofe of doing what I have; but whether 
they believe it or not, it is not the lefs 
true, fince I have only acted by virtue of 
the revelations which have been made to 
me. 
“© You afk me if I think that he, whom 
I call my King, hath done right in put- 
ting the Duke of Burgundy todeath. I 
will tell you epon that point that his death 
hath been a great misfortune to France; 
but, whatever might exift betwern thofle 
two princes, God hath not the lefs fent 
me to the affiftance of the King of France. 
If my letters bear the words Fe/us; Maria, 
with a crofs between them, it is what the 
ecclefiaftics advifed me to; and I willown 
to you, that when I added another crofs 
it was to indicate, fer fome fecret reafon, 
that the contents of the letter fhould not 
be obeyed. 
«¢ Tf it be alleged, as the truthis, that 
the Count d’Armagnac wrote to me de- 
firing to know which of the three pre- 
tenders to the papal chair he fhould obey, 
I made no other anfwer to him than what 
is contained in the letter produced to me, 
and which fays, that I would inform bim 
on my arrival in Paris to which of the 
three he fhould give credit, and that by 
the counfel of my rightful and fovereign 
Lord, the King of all the Univerfe. Iwas 
on the point of mounting my horfe. I had 
only time to wiite that I could not anfwer 
him then but would do it at Paris, which 
made it important, becaufe his mefienger 
ran the rifk, if he did not immediately re- 
turn, of being thrown into the river. But 
1 never wrote any thing to him on the fub- 
ject of the three popes, other than that I 
always had been, and was now, fubject to 
ihe Pope who weasat Rome. 
<¢ If it be alleged that I brought to 
life an infant at Lagni, I will tell you 
how that happened. It gave so figns of 
life for three days after it was born, and 
had not been baptized: the girls at Lagni 
prayed for it before the image of the 
Holy Virgiu. The voices of the two Saints 
faid to me that, if I went, life would be 
reftored'to it. I accordingly repaired to 
the church and faw the infant, black as my 
tunic and without any motion. I joined 
the girls of the village, and prayed with 
them. The infant revived—it appeared 
at firt Iefs black, cried three times, was 
baptized immediately, and, dying prefent- 
Jy afterwards, was buried in holy ground; 
but I have no other information oa the 
fubjed, nor do I know whether they attri- 
bute its being brought to life to me. 
«© If I called upon the people of Paris 
to furrender the city, it was not to me that 
I called upon them to do fo, as you al-" 
lege, but to the King. If I gave out 
that God loved the French, but did not 
love the Englith, I never intended to {peak 
of the falvation of the latter, for I am to- 
tally ignorant.on the fubje& ; but I faid 
that God loved the King, the Duke of 
Orleans, and fome others; that is, I meant 
that he would proteét them, and I have 
faid no more than what I knew. I faid,: 
what I know well, that the will of God is 
that the Engisth fhould be driven out of 
France, and that God would give victory 
over them to the French, becaufe if the 
Englith had fuccefs at the firlt, God only 
permitted it, in order to punifh the fins of 
the French. It is certain that a day hath 
not yet elapfed fince the two Saints told 
me that, before the expiration of feven 
years, the Englifh would be in a ftill 
worfe fituation than they were at the fiege 
of Orleans, and that they would lofe more 
than they have yet loft, for they would lofe 
all that they have in France. I neither 
know the day or the hour, nor do they 
know any more than me, but I am afflict- 
ed that it is fo diftant, yet, before the next 
feaft of St. Martin, the Englifh will fee 
many things. I know, from the two 
Saints, that before that time many of then. 
will be proftrate on the ground—I mean 
either conquered or killed.”* 
<¢ T alfo apprized M. the Bifhop of Beau- 
vais, that in undertaking my affair he put’ 
himfelf in great danger, aad as you wifh 
to know what that danger is, I will inform 
you. You fay that you are my judges. I 
do not know by what right you are fo: 
but take care that you judge not wrong; 
for, by doing fo, you wil put your'elves 
in great danger, and I warn you of it to 
the end, that, if God will punihh you for 
it; I have done my duty in cautioning you. 
The Saints never called me the daughter 
of God but before the raifing of the fiege 
of Orleans, and I never afked of them but — 
three things: the firft was, to go into 
France; the fecond, that God might aid, — 
the French ; and the third, the falvation 
of my foul. They promifcd me a fourths 
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* It is worth while to obferve here, that 
Paris fubmitted to Charles the VHth in 14365 
before fix years had elapfed fince this predic- 
tion, and that the affairs of the Englifh cons 
tinued more and more to fall into diforder after 
the death of Joan. . 
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