Footnote 518

From the Duke of Alençon's testimony on May 3, 1456: "...Talbot was brought before myself and the Connetable, with Joan present as well. I said to Talbot that in the morning I hadn't thought that things would happen the way they did; Talbot replied that it was the fortune of war." (For the original language, see DuParc's "Procès en Nullité...", Vol I, pp. 386 - 387; and Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol III, p. 99. For translations, see Oursel's "Les Procès de Jeanne d'Arc", p. 289, and Pernoud's "The Retrial of Joan of Arc", p. 141.)

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