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  • And as for you, archers, soldiers, gentlemen, and all otherswhoare besieging Orleans,depart in God'sname to your own country† I assure you that wherever I find your people in France I shall fight them, and pursue them, and expel them from here, whether they will or not.

    -StJoan of Arc
      Letter to the English at Poitiers, 22 Mar. Quoted in Les Proce'  s de Jeanne d'Arc (translated by C Larrington), p.33.

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