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The news flew up and down the Loire from point to point, arousing every village, and breathing new heart and encouragement everywhere; while in the meantime Jeanne, partially healed of her wound (on May 9th she rode out in a/maillet/, a light coat of chain-mail), after a few days 'rest in the joyful city which she had saved with all its treasures, set out on her return to Chinon.
Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896
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And for my armour, which must needs be light, they gave me a maillet -- a coat of slender mail, which did not gall my old wound.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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The news flew up and down the Loire from point to point, arousing every village, and breathing new heart and encouragement everywhere; while in the meantime Jeanne, partially healed of her wound (on May 9th she rode out in a _maillet_, a light coat of chain-mail), after a few days 'rest in the joyful city which she had saved with all its treasures, set out on her return to Chinon.
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“maillet” is mentioned as the means of slaughtering cattle, because familiar to European readers: at the end of the tale it becomes “le couteaufuneste.”
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