Word: baudricourt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four acts and an epilogue, subdivided into seven scenes, are required for the author's development of Joan from country maid to Saint. At the outset she appears at Vaucouleurs, where with a few brief sentences she persuades the testy Robert de Baudricourt to grant her soldiers and a horse to carry her to the Dauphin closeted at Chinon. Her recognition of the latter in the crowded throne room, his conversion to her standard follow. Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind?the Maid's "miracle" on joining...
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