XII. RETURNING VISIONS 63 XIII. WRESTLING WITH THE ANGELS 68 XIV. "THE TIME HAS ARRIVED!" 72 XV. CAPTAIN ROBERT OF BAUDRICOURT 76 XVI. AT THE CASTLE OF VAUCOULEURS 80 XVII. JOHN OF NOVELPONT 87 XVIII. "GOOD LUCK, JOAN!" 92 PART II. CHINON. I. THE COUNCIL OF CHARLES VII 101 II. ALOYSE OF CASTELNAU 112 III. THE TEST 118 IV. THE HALL OF RABATEAU 123 PART III. ORLEANS. CHAPTER. I. FRIDAY, APRIL 29TH, 1429 137 II. SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1429 147 III. SUNDAY, MAY 1ST, 1429 155 IV. MONDAY, MAY 2ND, 1429 157 V. TUESDAY, MAY 3RD, 1429 159 VI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH, 1429 161 VII. THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, 1429 177 VIII. FRIDAY, MAY 6TH, 1429 186 IX. SATURDAY, MAY 7TH, 1429 203 X. THE KING CROWNED 214 PART IV. ROUEN; OR, THE MYSTERY OF THE PASSION OF JOAN DARC. I. BISHOP AND CANON 229 II. IN THE DUNGEON 262 III. THE INQUISITION 277 IV. THE TEMPTATION 302 V. THE SENTENCE 312 VI. PHYSICAL COLLAPSE 326 VII. REMORSE 348 VIII. THE RELAPSE 354 IX. THE WORM TURNS 357 X. TO THE FLAMES 360 XI. THE PYRE 365 EPILOGUE 378 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. Whether one will be satisfied with nothing but a scientific diagnosis in psychology, or a less ponderous and infinitely more lyric presentation of certain mental phenomena will do for him; whether the student of history insist on strict chronology, or whether he prize at its true value the meat and coloring of history; whether a reader prefer in matters canonical the rigid presentation of dogma, or whether the tragic fruits of theocracy offer a more attractive starting point for his contemplation;--whichever the case might be, _The Executioner's Knife; or, Joan of Arc_ will gratify his intellectual cravings on all the three heads. This, the fifteenth story of the series of Eugene Sue's matchless historic novels entitled _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages_, presents the picture of the Fifteenth Century--a historic elevation climbed up to from the hills of the era sketched in the preceding story, _The Iron Trevet; or Jocelyn the Champion_, and from which, in turn, the outlines become vaguely visible of the critically historic era that forms the subject of the next story, _The Pocket Bible; or, Christian the Printer_.