Pucelle

She adopted the title 'pucelle' which means maid but it's a word that we don't really have in English, it's a person who is virtuous and has certain qualities...and this resonated with the people. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The medieval French word pucelle referred to a young adolescent girl or a virgin, although this comes from a slang term for virginity puce (= flea) ". ❋ Unknown (2008)

More at the House Next Door and more from Dennis Cozzalio, who comments on what he found there, Frédéric Bonnaud's Senses of Cinema, in which Rivette delivers his quick takes on umpteen films, including this one: "Every time I make a film, from Paris nous appartient (1961) through Jeanne la pucelle (1994), I keep coming back to the shock we all experienced when we first saw Europa 51." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Left is the only other known drawing of La pucelle during her lifetime, made by the notary Clément de Fauquemberque in a ledger margin on the day that the news arrived in Paris of the French victory at Orleans. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

“As for that matter,” cried the other with precipitation, “they would have no occasion to batter in breach; they would find the angle of the la pucelle bastion demolished to their hands — he, he!” — “But I believe it would surpass your understanding,” resumed the chairman, “to fill up the fosse.” — “That, I own, is impracticable,” replied the bard, “there I should meet with a hiatus maxime deflendus!” ❋ Unknown (2004)

He just knew that he and Grace had known happiness on board the ship that had been named by her French builders for Joan of Arc, la pucelle or the virgin. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2001)

La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance ❋ Darnton, Robert (1994)

Harangue de la pucelle Jeanne au roy pour l'induire a aller a Rheims. ' ❋ Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 (1893)

Benserade, J. de (?), ou Tilet de la Mesnardiere (?), 'La pucelle d'Orleans.' ❋ Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 (1893)

At first regarding _Bolduc la pucelle_ as impregnable, they had been pleased to hear that the prince had committed himself to an enterprise certain to be a dismal failure. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

In colloquial language, a maid (_une pucelle_) was a girl of humble birth, who earned her livelihood by manual work and was generally a servant. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

Ma pucelle quand je mourrai, _ says Eustache Deschamps (quoted by La Curne); Du Cange cites a will of ❋ Anatole France (1884)

Benserade, J. de (?), ou Tilet de la Mesnardière (?), 'La pucelle d'Orléans.' ❋ Ronald Sutherland Gower (1880)

Harangue de la pucelle Jeanne au roy pour l'induire à aller à Rheims. ' ❋ Ronald Sutherland Gower (1880)

It was observed that this _pucelle_ too obviously shaved; that in the matter of muscular development she was a little Hercules; that she ran upstairs taking four steps at a stride; that her hair, like that of Jeanne d'Arc, was ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

There might have been a hundred Jeanne d'Arcs, all definable as pucelle or maid, just as we say "spinster": we even read of one in the time of the Revolution. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The second drawing shows our "Salut à la Gente et accorte pucelle!" and the winning smile with which Carry would receive us. ❋ Felix Moscheles (1875)

Ronsard loves, or dreams that he loves, a rare and peculiar type of beauty, la petite pucelle Angevine, with golden hair and dark eyes. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

"Don't [forget] your pucel" ❋ Man Of Cardinal (2013)