“Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!”

—  Joan of Arc

As quoted by Jean Toutmouille during the retrial after her execution (5 March 1449), as quoted in Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France (1902) by T. Douglas Murray

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