3 Chapter 2 Leaving Home

CHAPTER 2 Leaving Home In the summer of 1428, Domrémy was raided by the French soldiers who sided with

England. Joan's family left to stay at an inn in a nearby town. Joan thought that the French people who sided with England were betraying their country. Joan's visions told her that with her help, Charles, the dauphin, could drive the English out of France. Joan didn't understand what that help would be, but she trusted that her visions were true. At that time, the dauphin was in the town of Chinon, over 350 miles away. Joan had a cousin who lived not far from the commander of a French fortress. Joan told her parents she wanted to visit her cousin, who was going to have a baby. What Joan really wanted was to speak to the commander—Robert de Baudricourt. When Joan arrived in December, her cousin's husband took her to meet Baudricourt. Joan explained that she needed to get to Charles. Like many Frenchmen, Baudricourt had heard of a prophecy—a prediction about the future—that a maid (an unmarried girl) would win France back from the English. Perhaps the maid was Joan! But

Baudricourt was not so easily convinced. When Joan told him that God said that she would make Charles king of France, Baudricourt did not believe her. He told Joan's escort to take her back to her father and have him punish her for telling stories.

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