rials 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

APPENDIX.
I. JOAN OF ARC IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH HISTORY 289

II. JOAN OF ARC IN POETRY 301

FRENCH BIBLIOGRAPHY 311

ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY 320

INDEX 323

List of Illustrations

(_SEVEN ETCHINGS, THREE PHOTO-ETCHINGS_).

TOUR COUDRAY--CHINON FRONTISPIECE

CHINON To face page 16

STREET IN CHINON " 20

HALL OF AUDIENCE--CHINON " 28

TOUR D'HORLOGE--CHINON " 32

WEST PORTAL--RHEIMS " 80

INTERIOR--RHEIMS " 96

FIFTEENTH-CENTURY HOUSES--COMPIEGNE " 112

TOUR DE LA PUCELLE--COMPIEGNE " 128

ST. OUEN--ROUEN " 224

_JOAN OF ARC._

CHAPTER I.

_THE CALL._

Never perhaps in modern times had a country sunk so low as France,
when, in the year 1420, the treaty of Troyes was signed. Henry V. of
England had made himself master of nearly the whole kingdom; and
although the treaty only conferred the title of Regent of France on
the English sovereign during the lifetime of the imbecile Charles VI.,