That was the name by which she was known in the
village. Later, in France, she was called Jeanne.[167]
[Footnote 161: J. Corblet, _Parrains et marraines_, in _Revue de l'art
chretien_, 1881, vol. xiv, pp. 336 _et seq._]
[Footnote 162: Simeon Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, proofs and
illustrations, li, p. 98.]
[Footnote 163: _Ibid._, p. clxxix, note.]
[Footnote 164: Cf. _Trial_, index, under _parrains_ and _marraines_.
It is not always possible to assign to these personages the names they
bore and the position they occupied at the exact date when they are
introduced.]
[Footnote 165: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, in the _Revue
Historique_, vol. iv, p. 342. Cf. Eustache Deschamps, ballad 354, vol.
iii, p. 83, ed. Queux de Saint Hilaire.]
[Footnote 166: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 74-388; vol. v, pp. 151, 220,
_passim_.]
[Footnote 167: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 46. Henri Lepage, _Jeanne d'Arc
est-elle Lorraine?_ Nancy, 1852, pp. 57-79.]
She was brought up in her father's house, in Jacques' poor
dwelling.[168] In the front there were two windows admitting but a
scanty light. The stone roof forming one side of a gable on the garden
side sloped almost to the ground. Close by the door, as was usual in
that country, were the dung-heap, a pile of firewood, and the farm
tools covered with rust and mud. But the humble enclosure, which
served as orchard and kitchen-garden, in the spring bloomed in a
wealth of pink and white flowers.[169]
[Footnote 168: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 244 _et seq._ Jacques d'Arc's
house doubtless looked on to the road; the Du Lys, or rather the
Thiesselins, pulled it down and erected in its place a house no longer
existing. The shields which ornamented its facade have been placed
upon the door of the building now shown as Jeanne's house. What is
represented as Jeanne's room is the bakehouse (E. Hinzelin, _Chez
Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 74). See an article by Henri Arsac in _L'echo de
l'Est_, 26 July, 1890. A whole literature has been written on this
subject (Lanery d'Arc, _Livre d'or_, pp. 330 _et seq._).]
[Footnote 169: Emile Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, _passim_.]
These good Christians had one more child, the youngest, Pierre, who
was called Pierrelot.[170]
[Footnote 170: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 151, 220.]
Fed on light wine and brown bread, hardened by a hard life, Jeanne
grew up in an unfruitful land, among people who were rough and sober.
She lived in perfect liberty. Among hard-working p
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