Pucelle

"Pucelle" -- a work which aimed to be the Iliad of France, but succeeded only in being very long and rather heavy.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Sometimes it seemed to Sharpe that he and Grace had run away to sea, and they played a game where they pretended the Pucelle was their private ship and its crew their servants and that they would forever be sailing forgiving seas under sunny skies.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

For want of a victim to assuage his ire, the Regent disgraced Sir John Fastolfe, whom he unknighted and ungartered, in order to punish him for the defeat at Patay; and he wrote that the English reverses had been caused by 'a disciple and lyme of the Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals enchantements and sorcerie. '

Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals enchantments and sorcerie.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Fastolfe, whom he unknighted and ungartered, in order to punish him for the defeat at Patay; and he wrote that the English reverses had been caused by 'a disciple and lyme of the Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals enchantements and sorcerie. '

Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

"The Pucelle is a French-made ship, Mister Tufnell, " Cromwell snapped.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The fact is that in amusing himself by the "Pucelle,"

Voltaire 2007

Even amid the licence of the "Pucelle" and of his romances, he never forgets what is due to the French tongue.

Voltaire 2007

The "Pucelle" is at least the wit of a rational man, and not the prying beastliness of a satyr.

Voltaire 2007

The "Pucelle" offends two modern sentiments, the love of modesty, and the love of the heroic personages of history.

Voltaire 2007