Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
JOAN OF ARC.

JOAN OF ARC.
Facts Which Go to Show that She
Was Not Burned at All.
London Standard
Though Joan of Arc is French hero
inc in little danger Of being forgotten,
the citizens Of Crotoy have thought lit
to make assurance doubly sure by rear
ing fresh statue to her memory. The
Maid of Orleans having had the misfor-
tune to be sound Catholic sacrificed by
bishop, the clericals and their oppo-
nents have seized the occasion for re-
newal of their ancient combat against
everybody and everything considered
inimical to the Warrior Girl OF Dom
remy. The story of Jeanne d'Arc's life,
as conventionally received, is tragedy
which aptly lends itself to the legion OF
painters, sculptors, poets, and prosers
who have chosen it for their Illustration
of their genius, or the demonstration OF
their dullness. But, in truth, after an
interval of four centuries and half, his
tory is apt to grow little moldy, and
though so orthodox chronicler as Mr..
Henri Martin, who was chosen to pro-
nounce the Crotoy eulogy, might have
proved equal to the demands on his I'M
agination, the least exacting OF historians
must now and then be staggered as they
try to repeat the oft-told tale Of the
foundress of the noble family Of De Lys.
A career of nineteen years, so obscure
in its beginning, so sad. and yet SO bril-
liant at its close, could not fail to enlist
the sympathy and admiration Of every
age. Thus Jeanne dare has been &C
corded an Immortality Of glory, and
wealth of pictures, statues, memoirs, and
epics such as have fallen to no other
woman of her nation. Unhappiy, we
live in Philistinish times. The iconoc-
lasts of history delight in hewing down
their fathers gods. With such spirit
let loose among the records, it could
scarcely be expected that the Maid OF
Orleans would escape the cruel investi-
cations of the spotless critic.
It is true that, though there is ques-
ton how far the fanaticism Of Jeanne
aided in routing our countrymen, no one
doubts that they were defeated. It is,
therefore, needless revising the verdict
then passed ct the spear-point. But
after hundred works had described her
death, and thousands of reverent pill
grims have wept over the scene Of her
martyrdom in the Place de Ia Pucelle of
Rouen, it was shock to hear, not only
that the English were not responsible
for her martyrdom, but that the heroic
damsel was never burned at all, having
lived to be respected matron and we'll
to-do-citoyenne. This is, nevertheless,
what Father Vignier asserts to be the
fact, and NJ. Delapierre has confirmed
with documents regarding the anthem
ITCHY of which there cannot be much
skepticism. There always was belief
that the woman executed in 1431 was
not the real "Maid" and at different
towns during the subsequent years num-
erous impostors were punished for at
tempting to pass themselves off as the
authentic martyr. NJ. Vignjer, how
ever, found in the archives of Mentz q
contemporary account of the arrival of
Jeanne in that city on the Goth of May,
1895, and her recognition Of her two
brothers.
This paper furthermore mentions that
in due time she was married to a Sieur
de Hermoise or Armoise, and though it
might be admitted that the document
discovered was modern forgery, it is
certainly staggering to disinter from a
family imminent chest of M. DIES
Armoise, of Lorraine, contract Of mar
rage between "Robert DIES Armoise,
Knight, with Jeanne darcy, surnamed
the Maid of Orleans" This also might
have been q coincidence, though rather
striking one, but among the archives of
the Maison de Vile of Orleans, under
dates 1435 and 1896, are records of GER
tain payments made to messengers bring
ing letters from Jeanne the Maid" to
her brother John du Ills or Lys. Now,
this surname is well known to have been
that under which, as reward for long
service, the Arc family are ennobled. So,
here-unless we at once cut the knot by
declaring the entire mass Of documents
Chose in Mentz, in Lorraine, and in Or
leans) to be gross forgeries, which has
not yet been attempted-is curious net
work of facts, out of which it is rather
difficult to escape from the conclusion
that there must have been some mistake
about the Maid of Orleans having been
incinerated in that lively city on the
Seine in which stands one of her many
statues erected to attest the truth Of the
event. Most curious of all-and NJ.
Delopierre, in his "Doutes Historiques, !"
adduces numerous other data tending in
the same direction-in the Orleans &C.
counts, under date Of Aug. /, 1889 eight
years after she ought to have beed dead,
there is an entry Of 240 ivres presented
to Jeanne d'Armoise by the Town Coun-
eli for services rendered by her at the
siege of 1929. It is difficult to get over
these facts
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