1st Montmirail-en-Brive.
2nd Provins. Sortie as far as Lamotte-de-Nangis, Bray-sur-Seine.
5th Return towards Paris by Provins.
7th Coulommiers, Chateau Thierry.
10th La Ferte Milon.
11th Crespy-en-Valois.
12th Lagny-le-Sec.
13th Dammartin and Thieux.
14th Baron, Montessilloy.
15th Crespy.
18th Compiegne, Senlis.
23rd Leave Compiegne.
26th Saint Denis.
SEPTEMBER.
5th La Chapelle, near Paris.
8th Attack on the gate Saint Honore.
9th Retreat from La Chapelle to Saint Denis.
14th Lagny-sur-Marne.
15th Provins, Bray-sur-Seine. Passage of the river Yonne at a ford
near Sens Courtenay. Chateau Regnaut, Montargis.
21st Gien. Selles-en-Berri, Bourges.
OCTOBER.
Meun-sur-Yevre, Bourges.
NOVEMBER.
Saint Pierre-le-Moutier.
9th Moulins.
24th La Charite-sur-Loire, Meun-sur-Yevre.
DECEMBER.
Jargeau.
1430.
JANUARY.
18th Bourges.
19th Orleans.
MARCH.
3rd Sully.
28th Flight from Sully.
APRIL.
15th Before Melun, Lagny, Sortie against Franquet d'Arras, Senlis,
Compiegne, Pont l'Eveque, Soissons, Compiegne.
MAY.
Lagny, Crecy, Compiegne.
28th Sortie from Compiegne against Margny and Clairvoix.
JUNE, JULY.
At Beaulieu-en-Vermandois.
AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER.
Beaurevoir, Arras, Drugy, near Saint Riquier, Le Crotoy.
DECEMBER.
Saint Valery-sur-Somme, Eu, Dieppe, Rouen.
1431.
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY.
Rouen.
Sismondi devotes a part of the thirteenth volume of his _History of
France_, published between 1821 and 1844, to the Maid of Orleans. He
sums up the action of the Church to her in these words: 'The Church
was against the Maid. All persons not delegated by her who pretended
to have supernatural powers were accused of using magical arts.'
Barante in his famous history of the Dukes of Burgundy, published in
1824, gives a somewhat meagre and uninteresting account of Joan of
Arc. In 1821 appeared a _Life_ of the heroine, by Jollois, under whose
direction the little monument was placed at Domremy in honour of the
Maid.
Alexandre Dumas has left among his numberless works a Life of _Johanne
la Pucelle,_ which is neither true history nor romance, but a jumble
of both, and is a work hardly worthy the author, but there are some
fine expressions in the book. Dumas christened Joan of Arc 'The Christ
of France.' Michelet in the fifth volume of his _Histoire de France_
published in 1841, has written what will probably always be considered
the best account of the Maid. Although only one hundred and thirty
pages are given to her life, these pages form a book in themselves,
and as a separate volume Michelet's _Life of Joan of Arc_ has gone
through a large number of editions, the latest a handsome illustrated
one, published by Hachette in 1888.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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