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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: from an exile dictated by prudence, what should she have done but
go straightway to the haunts of her childhood, where she might
meet once more her own friends and family?
But the account does not end here. M. Wallon, in his elaborate
history of Jeanne d'Arc, states that in 1436 the supposed Maid
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
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