Subject: [FFML] Re: [fanfic/OMG]Goddess?!?!?! Oh My..... part Three
From: "* Diese *" <diese69@hotmail.com>
Date: 7/18/2000, 1:46 PM
To: deibu_kun@sympatico.ca, ffml@fanfic.com


    Whoo! Great stuff! Well worth the wait. I have but one, niggling correction.

    Joan of Arc would be refered to as "Jeanne, La Vierge D'Orleans" as opposed>to "Plucelle du Orleans". Plucelle (I assume) is a typo, since "pucelle" is an>extremely slangy term for virgin or maid, sometimes used to refer to the actual>hymen.

I'm sorry to report that, but Pucelle d'Orleans is the proper term for naming Joan of Arc.  That is the word that was used in that time for describing virgins.  That is also how historians refer to her.  They even had "puceau" for the male virgins.  And even today, it is not considered slang in french, in Quebec, at least.


Sorry to contradict!

Diese

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