Little Jeanne of France [Illustration: LITTLE JEANNE OF FRANCE] LITTLE JEANNE _of_ FRANCE BY MADELINE BRANDEIS _Producer of the Motion Pictures_ "The Little Indian Weaver" "The Wee Scotch Piper" "The Little Dutch Tulip Girl" "The Little Swiss Wood Carver" Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Inc., New York City _Photographic Illustrations made in France by the Author_ GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK _by arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company_ COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybe you don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, my very little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera. These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels. I couldn't get along without them. Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marie is a bigger girl--but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed any more than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope that _you_ hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writing until we'll have no more countries to write about--unless, of course, some one discovers a new country. Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children to talk about--maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not even Marie--and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why, you see, though I sign myself [Illustration: Signature of Madeline Brandeis] I am really only Marie's Mother. DEDICATION To every child of every land, Little sister, little brother, As in this book your lives unfold, May you learn to love each other. CONTENTS Page Chapter I Madame Villard 11 Chapter II Paul 18 Chapter III To the Front! 25 Chapter IV On to Paris 32 Chapter V Suzanne 39 Chapter VI Jeanne 52 Chapter VII Major d'Artrot 64 Chapter VIII The Guignol 78 Chapter IX An Adventure in the Bois 90 Chapter X The Live Puppet 101 Chapter XI Little Spoiled Margot 108 Chapter XII At Auntie Sue's Shop 114 Chapter XIII Come and Play 127