"Torture me if you please. Tear my body to pieces. Whatever I say in my pains will not be true, and as soon as I am released I will deny that it was true. Now go on!" They did not torture her, but continued to harass her with questions. They said she should not wear man's dress as she did. She answered that when among men in war it was better and more proper. Once during the trial she seemed to hear her Voices and stopped speaking suddenly. Then after listening a moment she said, "Before seven years are passed the English will lose a greater stake than they have lost at Orléans: they will lose everything in France." This prophecy came true, as we know. At last, on May 24, 1431, her judges took Joan to the graveyard of the Church of St. Ouen (Oo-ong) at Rouen. There was a stake and faggots all ready for the burning, and they said that she would be burned to death unless she signed a paper saying that she would wear woman's dress and would submit to the judges. She said that she would be willing to do this if she would receive pardon. But as Joan could not read, the judges substituted another paper for her to make her mark on. On this paper was a statement that her saints were evil spirits, and that she had done all sorts of wrong things. She was still a prisoner of the English, and they kept her in prison. Her jailers by trickery induced her to put on her man's dress once more. When she had done this she was judged to have relapsed. This was the greatest crime, and she was sentenced to death. On May 30, 1431, she was burned to death in the marketplace of Rouen. Eight hundred soldiers surrounded the stake for fear that someone might attempt to save her. Only one kind priest who pitied her brought a cross and held it before her eyes while she was burning. In 1436 a woman appeared who said she was Joan of Arc escaped from the flames. Many people believed her; but afterward she confessed to being an impostor. On July 7, 1456, the pope revoked the sentence passed on the Maid. In February, 1903, a formal proposal was entered for her canonization, and on December 13, 1908, she was made a saint. [* PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 3, No. 22, SERIAL No. 98 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC.] JOAN OF ARC[*] By IDA M. TARBELL [Illustration: Joan of Arc From a Drawing by George Alfred Williams] _MENTOR GRAVURES_ JOAN OF ARC _By Foyatier_ JOAN OF ARC _By J. Roulteau_ JOAN OF ARC _By Princess Marie of Orleans_ JOAN OF ARC _By Henri Chapin_ THE MAID OF ORLEANS _By R. Wheelwright_ JOAN OF ARC _By Jules Bastien-Lepage_ THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF BIOGRAPHY JANUARY 1, 1916