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

by Anatole France

[1147] Jacques du Clercq, Mémoires, vol. iii, pp. 107 et seq.

[1148] Antoine du Faur, Livre des femmes célèbres, in Trial, vol. v, p. 336.

[1149] De Beaucourt, Histoire de Charles VII, vol. vi, pp. 442, 451. Chronique Martiniane, ed. P. Champion, p. 110.

[1150] Mathieu d'Escouchy, vol. ii, p. 422. Jean Chartier, Chronique, vol. iii, pp. 114-121.

[1151] Gallia Christiana, vol. vii, col. 151 and 214. Hardouin, Acta Conciliorum, vol. ix, col. 1423. De Beaucourt, Histoire de Charles VII, vol. vi, p. 444.

[1152] Trial, vol. iii. p. 219.

[1153] Trial, vol. i, p. 52 and passim.

[1154] A famous French alienist (1825-1893).—W.S.

[1155] Progrès medical, January 19, 1878.

[1156] The existence of patches devoid of feeling was considered in the Middle Ages to prove that the subject was a witch. Hence needles were run into the supposed witch. And if she felt them in every part of her body she was acquitted.—W.S.