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''Preternatural agency. JOAN and Dunois rest at a cottage. Their host speaks of the battle of Azincour and the massacre of the prisoners after that defeat. The siege of Rouen related and the miseries of the besieged. The useless inhabitants sent out of the town. Behaviour of Henry to them. Capture of Rouen and execution of Allain Blanchard its gallant defender.''