Эжен Сю - The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc

"Poor, dear girl! Her heart must bleed, as she said, to go all alone, far from her folks, and to battle at the mercy of God!"

"She will now turn around the corner of the rampart – "

"Let her at least hear our hearty adieus – Good luck, Joan the Maid! Good luck to Joan! Good luck! Good luck! Death to the English!"

"She hears us – she makes a sign – she is waving good-bye to us. Victory to Joan!"

"Mother! Mother! Take me up in your arms! Put me on your shoulders. Let me see her again."

"Come child! Take a good look! Always remember Joan! Thanks to her, no longer will desolate mothers weep for sons and husbands massacred by the English."

"Good luck to Joan – Good luck!"

"She has turned the corner of the rampart – she is gone!"

"Good luck to Joan the Maid! May the good God go with her!"

"May she deliver us from the English! Good luck, Joan!"

Three of the principal members of the Council of King Charles VII – George of La Tremouille, chamberlain and a despotic, avaricious and suspicious minister; the Sire of Gaucourt, an envious and cruel soldier; and Regnault, Bishop of Chartres, a double-dealing and ambitious prelate – were assembled on the 7th of March of 1429 in a hall of the Castle of Chinon.

"May the fever carry off that Robert of Baudricourt! The man's audacity of writing direct to the King inducing him to receive that female cowherd!" cried George of La Tremouille. "And Charles considers the affair a pleasant thing and wants to have a look at the crazy girl! The fools claim she is sent by God – I hold she has been sent by the devil to thwart my plans!"

"There is but one way of eluding the formal orders of the King," observed the Bishop of Chartres. "That accursed John of Novelpont has made so much noise that our Sire is determined to see the vassal whom, since her arrival, we have kept confined in the tower of Coudray to await the royal audience. The brazen and vagabond minx feels greatly elated at the imbecile enthusiasm that she has been made the object of by the clouts of Lorraine, and is surprised at not having been presented to Charles VII! Blood of Christ! Our do-nothing King is quite capable, as a means both of ridding himself of us and of dropping all care on the score of the kingdom's safety, of tempting God by accepting the aid of this Joan – In that event, my seigneurs, it will be all over with the influence of the royal council! All that will be left for us to do will be to quit our posts."

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Trial and Condemnation, and Proceedings of the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, known as The Maid , by Jules Quicherat, after the manuscripts in the Royal Library; vol. I, p. 39.

The same.

Trial of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 40.

Trial of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 74.

Song of Merlin the Enchanter , in Villemarqué, Popular Songs of Brittany , vol. I, p. 219.

Villemarqué, Popular Songs of Brittany , vol. I, p. 219.

The citation is literal. Denis Laxart, uncle to Jeannette, testified to having heard her say: "Has it not been long prophesied that France, desolated by a woman, would be restored by a woman?" ( Proceedings of the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc , edited by Jules Quicherat, vol. II, p. 444.) The wife of Henry Rolhaire also deposed and said: "Jeannette asked: 'Have you not heard it said that France, lost by a woman, would be saved by a virgin of the marches (borders) of Lorraine, born near an oak forest?'" (The same, p. 447.)

" Descendet virgo dorsum sagitarii. Among other writings was found a prophecy of Merlin, speaking in this manner." – Testimony of Matthew Thomassin, given by Quicherat in the Rehabilitation , vol. III, p. 15.

See "The Iron Arrow Head," the tenth of this series.

Volume one of this series, "The Gold Sickle."

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 67.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 87.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 88.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 88.

The same, p. 89.

The same, p. 89.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 77.

The same, p. 77.

The same, pp. 79, 80.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 79.

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 80.

The same, p. 80.

Trial and Condemnation , vol. I, p. 80.

Trial and Condemnation , vol. I, p. 80.

Trial and Condemnation , vol. I, p. 88.

Trial and Condemnation , vol. I, p. 29.

"Mammae ejas erant pulcherimas" – Testimony of the Duke of Alençon ( Proceedings of the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc , vol. III, p. 220).

Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc , vol. I, p. 127.

Trial and Condemnation , vol. I, p. 67.

Proceedings of the Rehabilitation , vol. II, p. 79.

Proceedings of the Rehabilitation , vol. II, p. 435.

This, and the succeeding answers of Joan in this interview which are authenticated by references to the Proceedings of the Rehabilitation , are all, with the exception of two otherwise designated, taken from that portion of vol. II between pp. 436 and 439.

Proceedings of the Rehabilitation.

The same.

The same.

The same.

Proceedings of the Rehabilitation.

The same, vol. II, p. 459.

Proceedings of the Rehabilitation.