"I should have God about to damn the English for their share in her betrayal," he added, "and Joan producing an end of burnt stick in arrest of Judgment." This, he went on to explain, was all that was left of the two sticks made into a cross that an English soldier had given her when she went to the stake - a soldier who represented "the common people of England". "I shall do a Joan play some day." He imagined it beginning with the "sweeping up of the cinders and orange peel after her martyrdom", and going on to Joan's arrival in heaven. In 1913 he visited Orléans and saw the 15th-century sculptured head of St Maurice, traditionally believed by the inhabitants to have been modelled after Joan. George Bernard Shaw does not seem to have considered adding to the literature about Joan until he was in his 50s. Hers was a voice that spoke to the imagination of artists, musicians and writers as a symbol she represented the differing needs of successive generations. B y the 19th century, Joan of Arc had become public property.
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