Joan of Arc

My mother had what the French call a culte for the heroine whose life I have attempted to write in the following pages.
It was but natural that one who loved and admired all that is good and beautiful and high-minded should have a strong feeling of admiration for the memory of Joan of Arc. On the pedestal of the bronze statue, which my mother placed in her house at Cliveden, are inscribed those words which sum up the life and career of the Maid of Orleans:—
' La grande pitié qu'il y avait au royaume de France. '
Thinking that could my mother have read the following pages she would have approved the feeling which prompted me to write them, I inscribe this little book to her beloved memory.
R.G.
Arcachon,
November 29.