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  JOAN OF ARC

  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 Rehabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc"; H. A. Wallon, "Jeanne d'Arc"; M.
Simeon Luce, "Jeanne d'Arc a 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
  "France and St. Denys!"                                          234
  "Forward! They are ours!"                                        326




JOAN OF ARC




CHAPTER I

A CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL

    "_There is a fountain in the forest called
     The Fountain of the Fairies. An ancient oak,
     The goodliest of the forest, grows beside._"

           SOUTHEY. "_Joan of Arc,_" _Book II._


"Who-oo-ee!" The gleeful shout came from the lips of a little girl who
stood, with her hands cupped about her lips, on the edge of a streamlet
which divided the village of Domremy into two parts.

She was a slight little maiden, of some twelve summers, and as she
gave the call she danced about in the warm sunshine as though unable to
keep still from the mere joy of being. Her hair was very dark and
very abundant. Her eyes were wonderful for their blueness and the
steadfastness of their gaze. Her face, though comely, was remarkable not
so much for its beauty as for the happiness of its expression. She stood
still listening for a moment after sending forth her call, and then, as
the Sabbath quiet remained unbroken, she sent forth the cry again in a
clear, sweet voice that penetrated into the farthest reaches of the
village:

"Who-oo-ee!"

This time the shout was caught up instantly, and answered by many voices.
The village wakened suddenly into life, as there poured forth from the
cottages a goodly number of boys and girls who came running toward the
little maid eagerly. She