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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