Vanessa Redgrave credited as playing...
Sister Jeanne
- Jeanne: Whore! Strumpet! Hypocrite! You tell me you have no vocation? Of course you have a vocation! Fornicator! Fornicator! Sacrilegious bitch! Seducer of priest, that's your calling! Your place is in a brothel. You filthy whore! Get back to the gutter where you belong!
- Louis XIII: Reverend Father, I notice that you don't speak to these creatures in Latin as is usual. Why is that?
- Barre: They're not conversant with the language. You'll understand, sire, there are uneducated as well as educated devils.
- Jeanne: [in a growling voice as she crawls like a crab] I haven't travelled much.
- Louis XIII: Quite.
- Jeanne: Oh, Christ, let me find a way to you. Take me in your sacred arms. Let the blood flow between us uniting us. (moans) Grandier. Grandier!
- Jeanne: I'm purging my own devils. Isacaaron, Balaam, they say they can stand up to the Church, but they can't stand up to this bitch!
- Jeanne: Do you know why most of us are here?
- Madeleine: Because you love our lord Jesus Christ, and wish to serve him.
- Jeanne: Hahahm. Most of the nuns here are noble women who have embraced the monastic life because there was not enough money at home to provide them with dowries, Hahahuh, or they were unmarriageable because ugly or burden to the family. Communities which ought to be furnaces where souls are forever on fire with the love of god are merely dead with the grey ashes of convenience.