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The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II Anatole France Translated by Winifred Stephens THE LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC BY ANATOLE FRANCE A TRANSLATION BY WINIFRED STEPHENS IN TWO VOLS., VOL. II LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMIX THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A. The Duke of Bedford from The Bedford Missal CONTENTS I. THE ROYAL ARMY FROM SOISSONS TO COMPIAGNE. POEM AND PROPHECY II. THE MAID’S FIRST VISIT TO COMPIAGNE. THE THREE POPES. SAINT-DENYS. TRUCES III. THE ATTACK ON PARIS IV. THE TAKING OF SAINT-PIERRE-LE-MOUSTIER. FRIAR RICHARD’S SPIRITUAL DAUGHTERS. THE SIEGE OF LA CHARITE V. LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF REIMS. LETTER TO THE HUSSITES. DEPARTURE FROM SULLY VI. THE MAID IN THE TRENCHES OF MELUN. LE SEIGNEUR DE L’OURS. THE CHILD OF LAGNY VII. SOISSONS AND COMPIAGNE. CAPTURE OF THE MAID VIII. THE MAID AT BEAULIEU. THE SHEPHERD OF GUVAUDAN IX. THE MAID AT BEAUREVOIR. CATHERINE DE LA ROCHELLE AT PARIS. EXECUTION OF LA PIERRONNE X. BEAUREVOIR. ARRAS. ROUEN. THE TRIAL FOR LAPSE XI. THE TRIAL FOR LAPSE (continued) XII. THE TRIAL FOR LAPSE (continued) XIII. THE ABJURATION. THE FIRST SENTENCE XIV. THE TRIAL FOR RELAPSE. SECOND SENTENCE. DEATH OF THE MAID XV. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MAID. THE END OF THE SHEPHERD. LA DAME DES ARMOISES XVI. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MAID (continued). THE ROUEN JUDGES AT THE COUNCIL OF BELE AND THE PRAGMATIC SANCTION. THE REHABILITATION TRIAL. THE MAID OF SARMAIZE. THE MAID OF LE MANS APPENDICES I. LETTER FROM DOCTOR G. DUMAS II. THE FARRIER OF SALON III. MARTIN DE GALLARDON IV. ICONOGRAPHICAL NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE DUKE OF BEDFORD Frontispiece From the Bedford Missal. PHILIP, DUKE OF BURGUNDY HENRY VI 194 From a portrait in the “Election Chamber” at Eton, reproduced by permission of the Provost. THE BASTARD OF ORLIANS 388 From an old engraving. The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II 1 CHAPTER I THE ROYAL ARMY FROM SOISSONS TO COMPIAGNE—POEM AND PROPHECY On the 22nd of July, King Charles, marching with his army down the valley of the Aisne, in a place called Vailly, received the keys of the town of Soissons. [1599] [Footnote 1599: Chronique de la Pucelle, pp. 323, 324. Perceval de Cagny, pp. 160, 161. Journal du siège, p. 115. Jean Chartier, Chronique, vol. i, p. 98. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 196. ] This town constituted a part of the Duchy of Valois, held jointly by the Houses of Orléans and of Bar. [1600] Of its dukes, one was a prisoner in the hands of the English; the other was connected with the French party through his brother-in-law, King Charles, and with the Burgundian party through his father-in-law, the Duke of Lorraine. No wonder the fealty of the townsfolk was somewhat vacillating; downtrodden by men-at-arms, forever taken and retaken, red caps and white caps alternately ran the danger of being cast into the river. The Burgundians set fire to the houses, pillaged the churches, chastised the most notable burgesses; then came the Armagnacs, who sacked everything, made great slaughter of men, women, and children, ravished nuns, worthy wives, and honest maids. The Saracens could not have done worse. [1601] City dames had been seen making sacks in which Burgundians were to be sewn up and thrown into the Aisne. [1602] [Footnote 1600: Ordonnances des rois de France, vol. ix, p. 71. H. Martin and Lacroix, Histoire de la ville de Soissons, Soissons, 1837, in 8vo, ii, pp. 283 et seq. ] [Footnote 1601: Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris, p. 53, passim. ] [Footnote 1602: Ibid. , p. 103. ] King Charles made his entry into the city on Saturday the 23rd, in the morning. [1603] The red caps went into hiding. The bells pealed, the folk cried “Noël, ” and the burgesses proffered the King two barbels, six sheep and six gallons of “bon suret, ”[1604] begging the King to forgive its being so little, but the war had ruined them. [1605] The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II 2 They, like the people of Troyes, refused to open their gates to the men-at-arms, by virtue of their privileges, and because they had not food enough for their support. The army encamped in the plain of Amblény. [1606] [Footnote 1603: Chronique de la Pucelle, pp. 323, 324. Perceval de Cagny, p. 160. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 339. ] [Footnote 1604: Suret is sour wine (W. S.). ] [Footnote 1605: C. Dormay, Histoire de la ville de Soissons, Soissons, 1664, vol. ii, pp. 382 et seq. H. Martin and Lacroix, Histoire de Soissons, vol. ii, p. 319. Pécheur, Annales du diocèse de Soissons, vol. iv, p. 513. Félix Brun, Jeanne d’Arc et le capitaine de Soissons en 1430, Soissons, 1904, p. 34. ] [Footnote 1606: Berry, in Trial, vol. iv, pp. 49, 50. Le P. Daniel, Histoire de la milice française, vol. i, p. 356. Félix Brun, Jeanne d’Arc et le capitaine de Soissons, pp. 26, 39. ] It would seem that at that time the leaders of the royal army had the intention of marching on Compiègne. Indeed it was important to capture this town from Duke Philip, for it was the key to l’e le-de- France and ought to be taken before the Duke had time to bring up an army. But throughout this campaign the King of France was resolved to recapture his towns rather by diplomacy and persuasion than by force. Between the 22nd and the 25th of July he three times summoned the inhabitants of Compiègne to surrender. Being desirous to gain time and to have the air of being constrained, they entered into negotiations. [1607] [Footnote 1607: De l’Epinois, Notes extraites des archives communales de Compiègne, in Bibliothèque de l’e cole des Chartes, vol. xxix, p. 483. Sorel, Prise de Jeanne d’Arc, pp. 101, 102. ] Having quitted Soissons, the royal army reached Château-Thierry on the 29th. All day it waited for the town to open its gates. In the evening the King entered. [1608] Coulommiers, Crécy-en-Brie, and Provins submitted. [1609] [Footnote 1608: Perceval de Cagny, p. 160. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 340. ] [...]... hunger, there existed a party of zealots, led by those whom Jeanne fondly called the Royal Blood [1619] They were the Duke of Alençon, the Duke of Bourbon, the Count of Vend‘me, and likewise the Duke of Bar, who had just come from the War of the 6 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II Apple Baskets [1620] Before he took to painting pictures and writing moralities in rhyme, this young son of the Lady... of Burgundy and of France, but her judgment was none the less sound Concerning the relative positions of the Kings of 5 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II France and England, between whom there could be no agreement, since the matter in dispute was the possession of the kingdom, her ideas were very simple but very correct Equally accurate were her views of the position of the King of France with regard... to the established rule, the army was in several divisions: the van-guard, the archers, the main body, the rear-guard and the three wings [1656] Further, and according to the same rule, there had been formed a skirmishing company, destined if need were to succour and reinforce the other divisions It was commanded by 17 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II Captain La Hire, my Lord the Bastard, and the. .. of the townsfolk, as the true king of cities In short, by concluding that campaign of honest and successful negotiations and by the august ceremonial of the coronation, he came forth at once as the lawful and very holy King of France 19 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II An illustrious lady, a descendant of Bolognese nobles and the widow of a knight of Picardy, well versed in the liberal arts, was the. .. Trial, vol iii, p 345 ] 27 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II CHAPTER II THE MAID’S FIRST VISIT TO COMPIAGNE THE THREE POPES—SAINT DENYS—TRUCES After the English army had departed for Normandy, King Charles sent from Crépy to Senlis the Count of Vend‘me, the Maréchal de Rais and the Maréchal de Boussac with their men-at-arms The inhabitants gave them to wit that they inclined to favour the Flowers... said: The goodness of her life proves that Jeanne possesses the grace of God “It was made manifest, when at the siege of Orléans her might revealed itself Never was miracle plainer God did so succour his own people, that the strength of the enemy was but as that of a dead dog They were taken or slain 22 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II “Honour to the feminine sex, God loves it A damsel of sixteen,... illustrious house of France Thus, riding by the side of the Archbishop of Reims, the Maid looked with a friendly eye on the peasants crying “Noël! ” After saying that 11 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II she had nowhere seen folk so joyful at the coming of the fair King, she sighed: “Would to God I were so fortunate as, when I die, to find burial in this land ”[1636] [Footnote 1636: Trial, vol iii, pp 14,... of God ” To strike still greater shame into the heart of the enemy, the Duke of Bedford proceeds to a second attack on the maiden and the monk 14 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II And in the most eloquent passage of the letter, when he is citing Charles of Valois to appear before him, he says ironically that he expects to see him come led by this woman of ill fame and this apostate monk [1645] [Footnote... Trial, vol iii, p 99 ] This letter shows how the English had transformed an innocent child into a being unnatural, terrible, redoubtable, into a spectre of hell causing the bravest to grow pale In a voice of lamentation the Regent cries: The devil! the witch! And then he marvels that his fighting men tremble before the Maid, and desert rather than face her [1648] 15 The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II [Footnote... 31 ] The Armagnacs and Burgundians had torn the coats off the peasants’ backs and seized even their pots and pans It was not far from Crépy to Meaux Every one in that country had heard of the Tree of Vauru At one of the gates of the town of Meaux was a great elm, whereon the Bastard of Vauru, a Gascon noble of the Dauphin’s party, used to hang the peasants he had taken, when they could not pay their . [1605] The Life of Joan of Arc - Volume II 2 They, like the people of Troyes, refused to open their gates to the men-at-arms, by virtue of their privileges,. 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