—Alfred Tennyson
Henri Chapu, (1833-1891) Louvre
JOAN OF ARC: THE PEASANT GIRL AT DOMRÉMY
JOAN OF ARC
(1410, 1412-1431)
"Oh child of France! Shepherdess, peasant girl! Trodden under foot by all around thee, how I honor thy flashing intellect, quick as God's lightning, and true as God's lightning to its mark, that ran before France and laggard Europe by many a century, confounding the malice of the ensnarer, and making dumb the oracles of falsehood!"
—De Quincey