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Pucelle

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Pu`celle´
n.1.A maid; a virgin.
Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.
- B. Jonson.
La Pucelle
the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.


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By now, as a bow to the prophecy, Joan was calling herself Jehanne la Pucelle, "Joan the Maid.
Centuries of reverence for Jeanne d'Arc had developed into a veritable cult of La Pucelle or the Maiden, and in 1869 the Bishop of Orleans lobbied Rome for her beatification.
1552: Adaptor of Le dixiesme livre d'Amadis de Gaule, auquel (continuant les haultz faitz d'armes et prouesses admirables de dom Florisel de Niquee, et des invincibles Anaxartes et la pucelle Alastraxeree sa soeur) est traite de la furieuse guerre qui fut entre les Princes Gaulois et Grecz pour le recouvrement de la belle Helene d'Apolonie (Paris: Groulleau, Longis, and Sertenas), dedicated to Marguerite de France.
 
 
 
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