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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: 1430, until her appearance at Metz, May 20, 1436? Mr. Delepierre
reminds us that the Duke of Bedford, regent of France for the
English king, died in 1435, and "that most probably Jeanne d'Arc
was released from prison after this event." Now this supposition
lands us in a fatally absurd conclusion. We are, in fact, asked
to believe that the English, while holding Jeanne fast in their
clutches, gratuitously went through the horrid farce of burning
some one else in her stead; and that, after having thus
inexplicably behaved, they further stultified themselves by
letting her go scot-free, that their foolishness might be duly
exposed and confuted. Such a theory is childish. If Jeanne d'Arc
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