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Show Joan of Arc as a Revelation. Orleans recently held, with modified festivity, the annual commemoration of Joan of Arc. Founded in 1429, this fete was suspended during the Revolution, Revo-lution, but revived by Napoleon when first consul on the suggestion of Chap-tal, Chap-tal, the brilliant chemist, who became'' his minister of the interior. Chaptal's memorandum, preserved among the national archives, bears the following autograph footnote by Napoleon : "The illustrious Joan of Arc proved that there is no miracle which the French genius cannot perforin when the independence inde-pendence of the nation is threatened." Which appears to be felicitously appropriate ap-propriate for the present moment. London Chronicle. |