santrailles

Updated: May 13, 2025

Then Pothon of Santrailles said: "There were other reasons for declining battle, according to the saying of your Excellency?" "Yes. One was that we being weak and the day far gone, the battle might not be decisive. When it is fought it must be decisive. And it shall be." "God grant it, and amen. There were still other reasons?" "One other yes."

Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2