(Du
Bellay) to invent a legend to disprove the fact; and to the
everlasting shame of French literature, Voltaire adopted the lying
calumny in his licentious burlesque-heroic poem, _La Pucelle
d'Orleans_.

The sentence of rehabilitation which fills in the translation a dozen
of M. Fabre's pages, was solemnly delivered in the great hall of the
archiepiscopal palace at Rouen. On that occasion one of Joan of Arc's
brothers, John, was present. The sentence which was framed to wipe
away the iniquity of the judgment by which the heroine had been
condemned, was delivered by the Archbishop of Rheims in the presence
of a vast concourse of people, among whom were the Bishops of Paris
and of Coutances. Among other things ordered to honour the memory of
the Martyr, it was ordained that after a sermon preached on the spot
where the act of abjuration had taken place in the cemetery of the
Church of Saint Ouen, and also on the site of the spot where had stood
the stake and pyre, two crosses should be erected.

Crosses were placed not only there, and in Rouen, but also on other
spots. It is interesting to know that one of these crosses can still
be seen in the Forest of Compiegne; and it is traditionally said that
this cross at Compiegne was placed there by no other than Dunois
himself. Both the crosses at Rouen have disappeared centuries ago.
Processions took place at Rouen, and all was done that the Church
could do to wash out the indelible stain of its action four-and-twenty
years before the time of the rehabilitation. In 1431, the clergy of
France, to please the English, had in the name of orthodoxy, and with
the tolerance of the Pope, denounced Joan of Arc as 'a heretic and
idolatress.' In 1456, the same French clergy, to please Charles VII.,
in the name of religion and justice pronounced the memory of Joan of
Arc free from all taint of heresy and of idolatry, and ordered
processions and erected crosses in her honour to keep her memory fresh
in the land.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX

No. I.

_JOAN OF ARC IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH HISTORY._

Even in France no thoroughly satisfactory history exists of Joan of
Arc, although a large number of histories have been written. Following
is an enumeration of the most important.

As was natural while her countrymen were divided into two camps, those
writers who belonged to the side of the English attacked the heroine,
or rather her mission, with ill-placed zeal. Of them Enguerran