Joan of Arc
Gower, Ronald Sutherland, 1845-1916
English
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JOAN OF ARC
BY
Lord Ronald Gower, F.S.A.
A TRUSTEE OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS
SEVEN ETCHINGS AND THREE PHOTO-ETCHINGS
LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND
MDCCCXCIII
Dedication.
My mother had what the French call a culte for the heroine whoselife I have attempted to write in the following pages.
It was but natural that one who loved and admired all that is good andbeautiful and high-minded should have a strong feeling of admirationfor the memory of Joan of Arc. On the pedestal of the bronze statue,which my mother placed in her house at Cliveden, are inscribed thosewords which sum up the life and career of the Maid of Orleans:—
'La grande pitié qu'il y avait au royaume de France.'
Thinking that could my mother have read the following pages she wouldhave approved the feeling which prompted me to write them, I inscribethis little book to her beloved memory.
R.G.
Arcachon,
November 29.
Preface.
The authors whose works I have chiefly used in writing this Life ofJoan of Arc, are—first, Quicherat, who was the first to publish atlength the Minutes of the two trials concerning the Maid—that of hertrial at Rouen in 1430, and of her rehabilitation in 1456, and whounearthed 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
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