It is impossible to know whether Joan's [of Ark] inspiration was restricted to a small circle of court soldiers or if- as today's social romantics would like to think- she spoke to the rank and file as one peasant to another. What is undeniable is that for a few months many Frenchmen thought they were fighting a holy war, and the English went in terror of the Maid and her sorceries.
from page 218, The Hundred Years War
from page 218, The Hundred Years War