Chapter I: Preface

The authors whose works I have chiefly used in writing this Life of Joan of Arc, are--first, Quicherat, who was the first to publish at length the Minutes of the two trials concerning the Maid--that of her trial at Rouen in 1430, and of her rehabilitation in 1456, and who unearthed so many chronicles relating to her times; secondly, Wallon, whose Life of Joan of Arc is of all the fullest and most reliable; thirdly, Fabre, who has within the last few years published several most important books respecting the life and death of Joan. Fabre was the first to make a translation in full of the two trials which Quicherat had first published in the original Latin text.

Thinking references at the foot of the page a nuisance to the reader, these have been avoided.

The subjects for the etched illustrations in this volume have been kindly supplied by my friend, Mr. Lee Latrobe Bateman, during a journey we made together to places connected with the story of the heroine.

R.G.

LONDON, _January, 1893._

CONTENTS.

PAGE CHAPTER I. THE CALL 1

CHAPTER II. THE DELIVERY OF ORLEANS 39

CHAPTER III. THE CORONATION AT RHEIMS 70

CHAPTER IV. THE CAPTURE 100

CHAPTER V. IMPRISONMENT AND TRIAL 138

CHAPTER VI. MARTYRDOM 242

CHAPTER VII. THE REHABILITATION 253