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Joan of Arc The Warrior Maid By: Lucy Foster Madison (1865-1932) |
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The Warrior Maid By Lucy Foster Madison
author of "The Peggy Owen Books" With Illustrations & Decorations by
Frank E Schoonover The Penn Publishing Company
Philadelphia
1919
COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY Joan of Arc
[Illustration: THE WARRIOR MAID]
INTRODUCTION
In presenting this story for the young the writer has endeavored to give
a vivid and accurate life of Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc) as simply told as
possible. There has been no pretence toward keeping to the speech of the
Fifteenth Century, which is too archaic to be rendered literally for
young readers, although for the most part the words of the Maid have been
given verbatim. The name of this wonderful girl has been variously written. In the
Fifteenth Century the name of the beloved disciple was preferred for
children above all others; so we find numerous Jeans and Jeannes. To
render these holy names more in keeping with the helplessness of little
ones the diminutive forms of Jeannot and Jeannette were given them. So
this girl was named Jeannette, or Jehannette in the old spelling, and so
she was called in her native village. By her own account this was changed
to Jeanne when she came into France. The English translation of Jeanne
D'Arc is Joan of Arc; more properly it should be Joanna. Because it seems
more beautiful to her than the others the writer has retained the name of
Jeanne in her narrative. It is a mooted question which form of the name of Jeanne's father is
correct: D'Arc or Darc. It is the writer's belief that D'Arc was the
original writing, when it would follow that Jacques D'Arc would be James
of the Bow or James Bowman, as he would have been called had he been an
English peasant. For this reason the Maid's surname has been given as
D'Arc; though there are many who claim that Darc is the nearest the
truth. Acknowledgments are due to the following authorities into the fruit of
whose labours the writer has entered: M. Jules Quicherat, "Condamnation
et Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc"; H. A. Wallon, "Jeanne d'Arc"; M.
Siméon Luce, "Jeanne d'Arc à Domremy"; M. Anatole France, "Jeanne d'Arc";
Jules Michelet, "Jeanne d'Arc"; Monstrelet's "Chronicles"; Andrew Lang,
"The Maid of France"; Lord Ronald Gower, "Joan of Arc"; F. C. Lowell,
"Joan of Arc"; Mark Twain, "Joan of Arc"; Mrs. Oliphant, "Jeanne D'Arc";
Mrs. M. R. Bangs, "Jeanne D'Arc"; Janet Tuckey, "Joan of Arc, the Maid,"
and many others. The thanks of the writer are also due to the librarians of New York City,
Albany and Glens Falls who kindly aided her in obtaining books and
information. Thanks are also due to the Rev. Matthew Fortier, S. J., Dean
of Fordham University, New York City, for information upon a point for
which search had been vainly made. That this book may make a little niche for itself among other books upon
the most marvellous girl the world has ever known, is the wish of THE WRITER.
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
I A CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL 11
II THE KNIGHT'S STORY 23
III THE WAVES OF WAR REACH DOMREMY 35
IV THE AFTERMATH 43
V JEANNE'S VISION 53
VI JEANNE'S HARSH WORDS 62
VII FURTHER VISIONS 71
VIII JEANNE RECEIVES A GIFT AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT 79
IX THE CHARGE IS ACCEPTED 90
X THE FIRST STEP 98
XI A TRYING TIME 108
XII A WORSTED SUITOR 119
XIII FAREWELL TO HOME 131
XIV VICTORY OVER DOUBTING HEARTS 140
XV STARTING THE GREAT ADVENTURE 155
XVI JEANNE COMES TO HER KING 166
XVII THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS 181
XVIII THE WARRIOR MAID 196
XIX THE HOUR AND THE GIRL 214
XX JEANNE SHOWS HER SIGN 230
XXI A WEEK OF WONDERS 243
XXII THE CULMINATION 263
XXIII THE TURNING OF THE TIDE 285
XXIV JEANNE'S LAST FIELD 308
XXV IN PRISON CELLS 332
XXVI ON TRIAL 346
XXVII FOR HER COUNTRY 374
XXVIII AT DOMREMY 384
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE
The Warrior Maid Frontispiece
The Gooseberry Spring 20
Often they appeared in the little garden 74
"The holy man has been to Rome" 80
There was no smile on his face 142
Far into the night they rode 156
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