It should be noted that as early as the year 1534 the famous early chronicler Polydore Virgile, Italian by origin, wrote a voluminous history of England in twenty-six books, and treated the Maid's mission as one inspired by divine influence, severely blaming her judges for their inhuman conduct towards her. In 1610 a book was published discussing the origin of the family of the Maid of Orleans; a work of little value. In 1612 one of the descendants of a brother of Joan of Arc--Charles du Lys--published a slight work called _Traite sommaire sur le nom, les armes, la naissance et la parente de la Pucelle et de ses freres_. In that same year the first history of Joan of Arc was published, also by a descendant of one of her brothers, John Hordal. This book was in Latin; it was entitled '_The History of Joan of Arc, that very noble heroine_.' Soon after an elaborated work, based on this book, was produced by Edmond Richer, a doctor of theology in Paris. The next account of the Maid of any length occurs in Mezarie's huge _History of France_, It was published between 1643 and 1652. In 1661 appeared a work called _L'Histoire du roi Charles VII., contenant les choses memorables de 1422 a 1466_. It was in this work, which was compiled by Denis Godefroy, that the manuscripts of the _Chronique de la Pucelle_ were first printed. This chronicle concerns the events which occurred between the years 1422 and 1429. Although not a complete history of the heroine, it is the earliest account. It was republished by Buchon, by Petitot, and by Quicherat; and it was consulted by Michelet when writing his account of Joan of Arc. M. Vallet de Viriville believes the Chronicle of the Maiden to have been written by G. Cousinot, Chancellor of the Duke of Orleans, who was present at the siege of Orleans. At the close of the seventeenth century was published a history of France by a Jesuit priest named David, in which there is some account of Joan of Arc; but David's history is more remarkable for being a colossal list of falsehoods than for any other merit. We now arrive at the eighteenth century, and still find no tolerable history of Joan of Arc. In the year 1753 the Abbe Longlet Dufresnoy published a _Life of Joan of Arc_; it is totally devoid of any merit.