Joan of Arc Quote

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


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


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

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

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

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