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Jean, Comte de Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Warwick is a nobleman who is in charge of English forces. He is Joan’s primary enemy in the secular world. Warwick wants Joan to be punished because her political philosophies threaten the existing feudal structure. Under Joan’s proposed social order, noblemen like Warwick would lose their land and social status when all power is relinquished to one king who, in turn, answers only to God. Warwick conspires with Peter Cauchon to capture and try Joan when both men agree that Joan is a threat to their respective institutions’ power. Cauchon agrees to turn Joan over to Warwick and the secular arm should Joan refuse to recant the charges of heresy of which the Church finds her guilty. Although Warwick is largely indifferent toward Joan’s heresy, he acknowledges that in Joan, he and Cauchon have a common enemy who threatens to dismantle and destroy the infrastructure of either man’s institution. Warwick wants Joan punished so that he can maintain his position of power within the existing feudal system.
Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick Quotes in Saint Joan
The Saint Joan quotes below are all either spoken by Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick or refer to Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“Men cannot serve two masters. If this cant of serving their country once takes hold of them, goodbye to the authority of their feudal lords, and goodbye to the authority of the Church. That is, goodbye to you and me.”
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“When he strikes, he strikes at the Catholic Church, whose realm is the whole spiritual world. When he damns, he damns the souls of the entire human race. Against that dreadful design The Church stands ever on guard. And it is as one of the instruments of that design that I see this girl. She is inspired, but diabolically inspired.”
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“You great lords are too prone to treat The Church as a mere political convenience.”
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“She acts as if she herself were The Church. She brings the message of God to Charles; and The Church must stand aside. She will crown him in the cathedral of Rheims: she, not The Church! She sends letters to the king of England giving him God’s command through her to return to his island on pain of God’s vengeance, which she will execute. […] Has she ever in all her utterances said one word of The Church? Never. It is always God and herself.”
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“My lord: we shall not defeat The Maid if we strive against one another. […] The devil divides us and governs. I see you are no friend to The Church: you are an earl first and last, as I am a churchman first and last. But can we not sink our differences in the face of a common enemy?”
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Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick Quotes in Saint Joan
The Saint Joan quotes below are all either spoken by Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick or refer to Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 4
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“Men cannot serve two masters. If this cant of serving their country once takes hold of them, goodbye to the authority of their feudal lords, and goodbye to the authority of the Church. That is, goodbye to you and me.”
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“When he strikes, he strikes at the Catholic Church, whose realm is the whole spiritual world. When he damns, he damns the souls of the entire human race. Against that dreadful design The Church stands ever on guard. And it is as one of the instruments of that design that I see this girl. She is inspired, but diabolically inspired.”
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“You great lords are too prone to treat The Church as a mere political convenience.”
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“She acts as if she herself were The Church. She brings the message of God to Charles; and The Church must stand aside. She will crown him in the cathedral of Rheims: she, not The Church! She sends letters to the king of England giving him God’s command through her to return to his island on pain of God’s vengeance, which she will execute. […] Has she ever in all her utterances said one word of The Church? Never. It is always God and herself.”
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“My lord: we shall not defeat The Maid if we strive against one another. […] The devil divides us and governs. I see you are no friend to The Church: you are an earl first and last, as I am a churchman first and last. But can we not sink our differences in the face of a common enemy?”
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