The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night. When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. Judged by any of them, it is still flawless, it is still ideally perfect it still occupies the loftiest place possible to human attainment, a loftier one than has been reached by any other mere mortal. It can be measured by the standards of all times without misgiving or apprehension as to the result. But the character of Joan of Arc is unique.

Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of their luster judged by the standards of to-day, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet the test at all points. TO ARRIVE at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Monseigneur RICARD, Jeanne d’Arc la Vnrable.

WALLON, Jeanne d’Arc.īERRIAT DE SAINT-PRIX, La Famille de Jeanne d’Arc. FABRE, Procs de Condamnation de Jeanne d’Arc. QUICHERAT, Condamnation et Rhabilitation de Jeanne d’Arc. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC by THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTEįreely translated out of the ancient French into modern English from the original unpublished manuscript in the National Archives of FranceĪuthorities examined in verification of the truthfulness of this narrative: Since the writing of human history began, Joan of Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeenĪ Peculiarity of Joan of Arc’s History The Sieur Louis de Conteġ3 Checked by the Folly of the Wise 14 What the English AnsweredĢ0 Joan Makes Cowards Brave Victors 21 She Gently Reproves Her Dear Friend

1Ĭonsider this unique and imposing distinction. Prepared by David Reed or Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol.

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