Chapter V: Jeanne D’arc--“la Pucelle”

“Give me René!”--Village of Domremy--Village feuds--A busy
mother--A weird accouchement--Le Bois Chènus--Voices--St.
Michael--Mad Jehanne--A coarse kirtle--She touched the
hilt--Duke Charles’s strange visitors--A dash around
the courtyard--“Vive la nostre Royne!”--A pilgrimage
march--Priests and minstrels--A famous sword--Jeanne’s
oriflamme--A dissolute Court--Charles VI. at Chinon--A winning
hazard--Certain secrets--Jeanne’s double ordeal--Bishops
and matrons--“La Pucelle” so named by Queen Yolande--Filles
de Joie--White armour--An ultimatum--Divided counsels--The
siege of Orléans--“The Maid” wounded--En route to Reims--The
“Sacré”--Jeanne’s modesty--Her apotheosis--“Sire, I bid
you farewell”--René the hero--Jeanne the heroine--To
expel the hated English--The fall of Paris--“The Maid”
a prisoner--Deserted by everyone--A mock trial--A human
wreck--Burnt to death--A maiden’s heart and a white dove--“Ma
Royne est mort!” René’s lament--Charles’s remorse--The memory
of Jeanne d’Arc 143-173