The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2

by Anatole France

[625] F. Duchesne, Histoire des chanceliers et garde des sceaux de France, p. 487.

[626] Trial, vol. i, p. 56.

[627] Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 394, 462.

[628] Isaiah, ch. 66, verse 10 (W.S.).

[629] Trial, vol. i, p. 143.

[630] La vie de saint Harenc glorieux martir et comment il fut pesché en la mer et porté à Dieppe, in Recueil des poésies françaises des XV^e et XVI^e siècles, by A. de Montaiglon, vol. ii, pp. 325-332.

[631] Still if Jeanne were the age she is said to have been, about eighteen, she was under no obligation to fast, but only to be abstinent. Nevertheless, when imprisoned at Rouen, she fasted during Lent; but we do not know how old her judges considered her to be.

[632] Trial, vol. i, p. 143.

[633] G. de Cougny, Notice archéologique et historique sur le château de Chinon, Chinon, 1860, in 8vo.

[634] La légende dorée, translated by Gustave Brunet, 1846, pp. 259, 264. Douhet, Dictionnaire des légendes, pp. 426, 436.