Saint Joan of Arc (Jeanne la Pucelle)/Joan of Art quotes

A few Saint Joan of Arc classic quotations

> state of Grace > i will not look back to see who is following me

Vaucouleurs

Jean de Metz, Knight who accompanied Joan to Chinon to meet the Dauphin:

Then I pledged my faith to her, touching her hand, and promised that, with God’s guidance, I would conduct her to the King. I asked her when she wished to start. “Sooner at once than to-morrow, and sooner to-morrow than later,”

H L , cartwright, formerly of Vaucouleurs

"I was born to do this."

The way to Rhiems

Jean Dunois, The Bastard of Orleans:

On attacking the English

“Have all of you good spurs?”

“What do you mean?” asked those present of her; “are we, then, to turn our backs?”

“Nay,” she replied, “it is the English who will not defend themselves, and will be beaten; and you must have good spurs to pursue them.”

To the Dauphin who hesitated to go to Rheims for his coronation:

“When I am vexed that faith is not readily placed in what I wish to say in God’s Name, I retire alone, and pray to God. I complain to Him that those whom I address do not believe me more readily; and, my prayer ended, I hear a Voice which says to me: ‘Daughter of God! go on! go on! go on! I will be thy Help: go on!’ And when I hear this Voice, I have great joy. I would I could always hear it thus.”

To the Dauphin who hesitated whether or not to attack Troyes:

“Noble Dauphin, order your people to come and besiege the town of Troyes, and lose no more time in such long councils. In God’s Name, before three days are gone, I will bring you into this town by favour or force, and greatly will the false Burgundy be astounded.”