299

XIV. THE TRIAL FOR RELAPSE. SECOND SENTENCE.
DEATH OF THE MAID 323

XV. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MAID. THE END OF
THE SHEPHERD. LA DAME DES ARMOISES 343

XVI. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MAID (_continued_). THE
ROUEN JUDGES AT THE COUNCIL OF BALE AND
THE PRAGMATIC SANCTION. THE REHABILITATION
TRIAL. THE MAID OF SARMAIZE. THE MAID OF LE MANS 378

APPENDICES

I. LETTER FROM DOCTOR G. DUMAS 401

II. THE FARRIER OF SALON 407

III. MARTIN DE GALLARDON 413

IV. ICONOGRAPHICAL NOTE 420

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. II

THE DUKE OF BEDFORD _Frontispiece_
From the Bedford Missal.

_To face page_

PHILIP, DUKE OF BURGUNDY 140

HENRY VI 194
From a portrait in the "Election Chamber" at Eton,
reproduced by permission of the Provost.

THE BASTARD OF ORLEANS 388
From an old engraving.

JOAN OF ARC

CHAPTER I

THE ROYAL ARMY FROM SOISSONS TO COMPIEGNE--POEM AND PROPHECY

On the 22nd of July, King Charles, marching with his army down the
valley of the Aisne, in a place called Vailly, received the keys of
the town of Soissons.[1599]

[Footnote 1599: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 323, 324. Perceval de
Cagny, pp. 160, 161. _Journal du siege_, p. 115. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, vol. i, p. 98. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 196.]

This town constituted a part of the Duchy of Valois, held jointly by
the Houses of Orleans and of Bar.[1600] Of its dukes, one was a prisoner
in the hands of the English; the other was connected with the French
party through his brother-in-law, King Charles, and with the
Burgundian party through his father-in-law, the Duke of Lorraine. No
wonder the fealty of the townsfolk was somewhat vacillating;
downtrodden by men-at-arms, forever taken and retaken, red caps and
white caps alternately ran the danger of being cast into the river.
The Burgundians set fire to the houses, pillaged the churches,
chastised the most notable burgesses; then came the Armagnacs, who
sacked everything, made great slaughter of men, women, and children,
ravished nuns, worthy wives, and honest maids. The