suggested by my own imperfect effort to seize the guard's horn, and to blow the warning blast. But the Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party." JOAN OF ARC This article appeared originally in _Taifs Magazine_ for March and August, 1847; it was reprinted by De Quincey in 1854 in the third volume of his _Collected Writings_. It is found in _Works_, Masson's ed., Vol. V, pp. 384-416; Riverside ed., Vol. VI, pp. 178-215. 64 10 LORRAINE, now in great part in the possession of Germany, is the district in which Domrémy, Joan's birthplace, is situated. 65 14 VAUCOULEURS: a town near Domrémy; cf. p. 70. 65 28 EN CONTUMACE: "in contumacy," a legal term applied to one who, when summoned to court, fails to appear. 66 13 ROUEN: the city in Normandy where Joan was burned at the stake. 66 25 THE LILIES OF FRANCE: the royal emblem of France from very early times until the Revolution of 1789, when "the wrath of God and man combined to wither them." 67 5 M. MICHELET: Jules Michelet (1798-1874) is said to have spent forty years in the preparation of his great work, the _History of France_. Cf. the same, translated by G. H. Smith, 2 vols., Appleton, Vol. II, pp. 119-169; or _Joan of Arc_, from Michelet's _History of France_, translated by O. W. Wight, New York, 1858. 67 8 RECOVERED LIBERTY: The Revolution of 1830 had expelled the restored Bourbon kings. 67 20 THE BOOK AGAINST PRIESTS: Michelet's lectures as professor of history in the Collège de France, in which he attacked the Jesuits, were published as follows: _Des Jésuites_, 1843; _Du Prêtre, de la Femme et de la Famille_, 1844; _Du Peuple_, 1845. To the second De Quincey apparently refers. 67 26 BACK TO THE FALCONER'S LURE: The lure was a decoy used to recall the hawk to its perch,--sometimes a dead pigeon, sometimes an artificial bird, with some meat attached. 68 6 ON THE MODEL OF LORD PERCY: These lines, as Professor Hart notes, in Percy's Folio, ed. Hales and Furnivall, Vol. II, p. 7, run: The stout Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 som_m_ers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D'ORLÉANS: Maid of Orleans (the city on the Loire which Joan saved). 69 1 THE COLLECTION, ETC.: The work meant is Quicherat, _Procès de Condamnation et Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc_, 5 vols., Paris, 1841-1849. Cf. De Quincey's note. 69 21 DELENDA EST ANGLIA VICTRIX! "Victorious England must be destroyed!" Cf. _Delenda est Carthago_! "Carthage must be destroyed!" _Delenda est Karthago_ is the version of Florus (II, 15) of the words used by Cato the Censor, just before the Third Punic War, whenever he was called upon to record his vote in the Senate on any subject under discussion.