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SAINT JOAN SCENE I A fine spring morning on the river Meuse, between Lorraine and Champagne, in the

SAINT JOAN SCENE I Afine spring morning on the river Meuse, between Lorraine and Champagne, in the year 1429 A.D., in the castle of Vaucouleurs. Captain Robert de Baudricourt, amilitary squire, handsome and physically energetic, but with no will of his own, is disguising that defect in his usual fashion by storming terribly at his steward, atrodden worm, scanty of flesh, scanty of hair, who might be any age from 18 to 55, being the sort of man whom age cannot wither because he has never bloomed. The two are in asunny stone chamber on the first floor of the castle. At aplain strong oak table, seated in chair to match, the captain presents his left profile. The steward stands facing him at the other side of the table, if so deprecatory astance as his can be called standing. The