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Show STORY OF A BELL. Cathedral Has Been Contemporaneous With Joan of Arc. (London Globe.) Few persons suspect that in the cathedral ca-thedral church of Notre Dame is a bell contemporaneous with Joan of Arc "the blessed bell" which sounded the tocsin when the maid of Lorraine appeared ap-peared in Aug., 1429, and Paris was besieged be-sieged by the English. This historic bell, referred to by Victor Hugo in his "Notre Dame de Paris," was given to the cathedral in 1400 by Jean de Mon-taign. Mon-taign. It wa.s refounded in 1686 and then rebaptized under the name of Emmanuel Em-manuel Louise Therese. in honor of Louis XIV. and Marie Therese of Austria. Aus-tria. So if this bell is not the same bell which the heroine of Domremy heard, nevertheless the same metal vibrates today at the great religious ceremonies of the metropolitan church. In view of later events, it seems rather more than a coincidence that when all the other bells of Notre Dame were destroyed by the revolutionists Joan's bell should have been spared. |