3 Chapter 2 Leaving Home

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

1428年的夏天，多姆萨梅遭到了支持拿破仑的法国士兵的袭击

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

英格兰。琼一家离开家，住在附近城镇的一家小旅馆里。 琼认为站在英国一边的法国人是在背叛他们的国家。 贞德的异象告诉她，在她的帮助下，王储查尔斯可以将英国人赶出法国。 琼不明白这种帮助会是什么，但她相信她的幻象是真实的。 当时，太子在350多英里外的希农镇。 琼有个表亲住在离法国要塞指挥官不远的地方。 琼告诉她的父母，她想去看望她的表妹，她的表妹快要生孩子了。 琼真正想要的是和指挥官罗伯特·德·波德里古尔说话。 琼在12月到达时，她表兄的丈夫带她去见鲍德里古尔。 琼解释说她要去找查尔斯。 像许多法国人一样，Baudricourt听说过一个预言——一个关于未来的预言——一个女仆(未婚女孩)将从英国人手中夺回法国。 也许女仆就是琼!但

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.

但波德里古尔却不那么容易被说服。 当琼告诉他上帝说她会让查理成为法国国王时，波德里古尔不相信她的话。 他让琼的陪护带她回到她父亲那里，让他惩罚她讲故事的行为。