What was Joan of Arc like when she was young?
One of Joan’s friends when she was young named Hauviette described her as being “good, simple, and sweet.” Another young friend of Joan’s named Mengette later said the following about Joan: “My father’s house and the house of Father d’Arc joined. Thus I knew Joan intimately. Often we spun together and performed in company the household labors, by day or by night. She had been nurtured in the Christian faith, and was of good habits: loved to go often to church and gave alms of whatever she received from her father. She was a good girl, simple and pious, so pious that her comrades and myself told each other that she was too much so. She went gladly to confession ; and many times I have seen her kneeling before the cur of the village.
