[91] An equestrian statue in bronze stands at the south end of the Rue des Pyramides, a few hundred yards from the spot where the Maid fell before the Porte St. Honoré.
[92] The faculty of Theology declared her sold to the devil, impious to her parents, stained with Christian blood. The faculty of Law decreed her deserving of punishment, but only if she were obstinate and of sound mind.
[93] In 1421 and 1422 the people of Paris had seen Henry V. and his French consort sitting in state at the Louvre, surrounded by a brilliant throng of princes, prelates and barons. Hungry crowds watched the sumptuous banquet and then went away fasting, for nothing was offered them. “It was not so in the former times under our kings,” they murmured, “then there was open table kept, and servants distributed the meats and wine even of the king himself.”
[94] Part of the Rue de l’Homme Armé still exists.
[95] The fifteenth-century goldsmiths of Paris: Loris, the Hersants, and Jehan Gallant, were famed throughout Europe.
[96] The reader will hardly need to be reminded that this amazing folly forms one of the principal episodes in Scott’s Quentin Durward.
[97] Flamboyant windows were a natural, technical development of Gothic. The aim of the later builders was to facilitate the draining away of the water which the old mullioned windows used to retain.
[98] One of the façades of this remarkable building may be seen in the courtyard of the Beaux Arts at Paris.
[99] Brittany was incorporated with the Monarchy 1491.
[100] The good king’s portrait by an Italian sculptor may be seen in the Louvre, Room VII., and on his monument in St. Denis he kneels beside his beloved and chère Bretonne, Anne of Brittany, whose loss he wept for eight days and nights.