I'm writing a book about Jeanne d'Arc tentatively titled "Road to Rouen". I am seeking unpublished letters, manuscripts, tweets or graffiti referencing the soi-disant Maid or Orleans. No fats or femmes.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberFor a musical backdrop, please see the seminal work of 80s Brit Synth pop act OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Their piece "Maid of Orleans" will be all the research necessary.Posted 1 year ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberI have a lock of her hair passed down through the generations of keen bonfireists. It's a little bit burnt, but you may be able to clone her and ask her yourself?
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Des Custard
offlineMemberI have a singed letter. At least it looks like her signature.
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fernandomando
offlineMemberI found this joke on the internet when searching for 'Joan of Arc jokes':
What's the difference between Joan of Arc and a canoe? One is Maid of Orleans and the other is made of wood.
I think a better joke would have been as follows:
"What's the difference between Joan of Arc and a canoe? That's the last time I take you on an extreme kayaking holiday."
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberSure I saw her looking very old and haggard on a chat show recently - I may be thinking of Joan Collins...
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Ironduke
offlineMember1. We visited Rouen, they have a very artistic representation of flames twisting up into the sky on a building in the place where she was burnt. Having always felt we were the good-guys of World History (I wasn't erribly widely read!)I got my first little insight into how a German might feel visiting Coventry.
2. At Rouen, we had quite the most marvellous lunch I;ve ever had. Set menu, a terrine to start, steak-frites for mains, a wonderful melting-centred chocolate pud, and a cheese board. The man next to us was taking his adult daughter for lunch, he chose a half bottle of white for his starter, a bottle of red for mains, brandy to finish as she said 'Jaime bien le camembert' to the waiter and got a huge heping. He caned every drop of the booze, and they clearly really enjoyed themselves. I learnt an awful lot that afternoon!
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waylandsmithy
offlineMemberIronduke, Rouen is lovely, but I had the worst meal of my life there.
I can't explain why the fuck I thought it would be good to go to a 'german' themed restaurant in France, but that's where I ended up. Knowing that my German/French is rough, I was fairly sure that something from the rump end of a pig would be delicious.
The dirty bastards gave me a whole pig's tail on a bed of fermented cabbage. With the bone in.
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John Ffitch-Rucker
offlineMemberIf you like a laugh, go to Bayeux. There’s a statue there of Bill the Conquerer which looks just like Kenneth Williams. And as for the tapestry, what is not often mentioned is that the nuns who embroidered it had very fertile imaginations - some of the dead knights are depicted with enormous cocks.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberWayland: You were lucky! Stopping for lunch by the Loire, I decided to order the local speciality, anuette(?). It was described as a local sausage but was actually a huge turd shaped piece of pig's bowel stuffed with chopped up pigs arse. When I cut into it it smelled like a sewer and tasted as if they had failed to wash all the shit out before cooking it. The dirty, as you said, bastards!
The only other diner was a young man tucking into 3 courses and a half bottle of plonk before getting back into his 18 wheel articulated lorry.Posted 1 year ago # -
rikkor
offlineMemberI had a friend wot is dead now who was a chef at a grand French restaurant in New York. He said that one of his first jobs in the restaurant biz was cleaning the pig turds out of the intestines used to make that sausage. Blecch!
had in my mind that it is aguillette, but that's a bit of military braid. Andouillette. In New Orleans, they have andouille, which is very nice and not disgusting at all.
http://unclestinky.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/andouillette-french-pig-colon-sausage/
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