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The English have just been defeated in battle by the French and they are not happy about it. The two English men discuss the political and geographical split within France and the role of Joan, a young girl who has been allowed to lead the French army. They are soon joined by a French Bishop, who has come to visit them to discuss plans to get rid of Joan. They want to denounce her as a heretic, with the option of burning the young girl at the stake.
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A tent in the English camp. A bullnecked English chaplain of 50 is sitting on a stool at a table, hard at work writing. At the other side of the table an imposing nobleman, aged 46, is seated in a handsome chair turning over the leaves of an illuminated Book of Hours. The nobleman is enjoying himself: the chaplain is struggling with suppressed wrath. There is an
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