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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: visited France, and appears to have met some of the men-at-arms
with whom she had fought. In 1439 she came to Orleans, for in the
accounts of the town we read, "July 28, for ten pints of wine
presented to Jeanne des Armoises, 14 sous." And on the day of her
departure, the citizens of Orleans, by a special decree of the
town-council, presented her with 210 livres, "for the services
which she had rendered to the said city during the siege." At the
same time the annual ceremonies for the repose of her soul were,
quite naturally, suppressed. Now we may ask if it is at all
probable that the people of Orleans, who, ten years before,
during the siege, must have seen the Maid day after day, and to
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