The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-19

Of England. The great town clock
CROSSE horloge," set upon an arch
over the street, dates from 1889. But
most of all Il woman will care to
search out with loving pains the places
where Joan of Arc, the holy maid of
Domremy, walked while on this earth,
the grim, gray tower where she was
imprisoned, the sorrowful path she
trod from the tower to the stake.
Rouen is full of traces Of gentle,
sanity Jeanne Dare to this day. The
very air seems vibrant with memories
Of her The principal street is named
for her, "Jeanne Dare" 1t was spell
ed rs | have written it. with no apos-
trophe between the d and the a. Rou-
en- still recalls that the maids family
name was plain peasant Dare till the
French government long after her mar
tyrdom. ennobled it by dccreeing that
the ariStocratic de" should be placed
before it. Jeanne Dare had no blue
blooded ancestry. therefore was snuff
cd out by no fine lady traditions when
she entered on her mission. Had she
been lin society France might have
been an English possession to this day.
Yet another street is called Rue de
Ia Pucelle dOrleans," and there is, too,
the place de In Pucelle dOrleans"
Her memory is honOred by an inscrip-
ton in the market place. In these an
Gent French towns the market place is
an important spot. 1t was Il lovely
spring day when | went through the
public mart of Rouen. Old environing
walls, built like almost everything else
in this part of the world when time was
long stood all about. The stalls were
bright with flowers and fragrant with
the odors of delicious northern French
strawberries. New grown peas. like
polished round green pearls, were burst
ing from their fat pods. Clean, white
capped peasant women cried their
wares musically - periWinkles, tender
green radisheS and succuleut rhubdlb
stalks.
Past them all. stalls. women and rad
lshes, through the market house | went
and on to The spot where one of the
worlds most awful tragedies was en-
acted-the burning at the stake by de
cree of church and state of n virgin
martyr who had delivered her country
from a foreign power. The very spot
where the fires were kindled is known
and marked. a stone of the pavement
outside the old market covers the
place. Years after her death, when
The martyr had become a saint in the
minds of the French nation, old people
yet living who remembered the death
scene and the day pointed out the spot
70 those who wished to make record Of
IT, The maid was taken to the market
place to be- burned that the popuacc
might see and take warning
Joan Of Arc owed her death TO
science, ST. octly. In writing Of the
{ extraordinary career of the maid. the
scientist bio%rapher of today tells you
that at the age of Is she "belieyed her
sell subject to supernatural vista
uons Imagined" that she heard
voices calling to her and giving her di
rection. Further, she had heard ira
uitlou that virgin was 10 deliver
France from the English invader. AMI
having imagined she heard the voices
'nd saw the visions it was very easy
Tor her, being already slightly touched
IN the head to go in a trillp stronger
lnd again Imagine" herself to be that
virgin.
Thus says science today But it was
exactly the "science" of 1881, that Of
the University of France, the very fore
front of the learning of the time, which
first demanded the trial Of Joan of Arc
on the charge of sorcery. Today sci
ence would eat it's own head before
II would admit there was any such
thing as sorcery. Science changes its
front.
Having defeated the English and
seen Charles VII crowned, the maid
heard no more voices. Her work was
done. Then she begged to go back to
grooming and feeding her horses at the