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Show POOR JOAN DONE FOR. The Heroine of France Joins the Uthel Idols f Koniani-e. And now thoy say that, instead ol being a heroine, Joan of Arc belongs to that peculiar class known at the present time as cranks; that the voices she heard in the woods ol Domremy were the hallucinations of a disordered intellect. Her visit to (iovernor Boudricourt so annoyed him that he passed her on to the court of the dauphin for the mere purpose of getting rid of her, where in turn the dauphin dressed her up in armor for the amusement of the court- The iconoclasts even go so far as to assert that the consecrated sword which was found, per Joan's direction, buried in the Church of St Catharine at Flerbois, and which was presented to her by the dauphin, had been planted there by hands of ordinary flesh and blood. They further assert that she did not lead the army to the relief ol Orleans, but merely went along like a vivandiere. They scoff at the story that the soldiers who tied this abused lady to a stake in the market place at Rouen were struck dead. So the indications are that the great French heroine will have to get down off of her pedestal and follow William Tell, Kulntius Curtius, et al. Mediaeval history is rapidly losing its brightest stars through the irreverent investigations of the modern quidnunc It now looks like it was a mere matter of timo until American history is attacked at-tacked in the samo way, and thesa individuals will be prepared to prove that Patrick Henry never made a speech, that no cherries grew at the Washington homestead, and that the John Smith-Pocahontas story was due to the fertile imagination of some special correspondent. Indianapolis Sentinel. |
