Show i a THE WORLDS GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE 1 i W ui liddil ua I 1 joan 0 of arc 0 TIE T UK great presence of 0 the court was wai crowded to lo t the he dwors devors on u Q duis dais at t III juliu upper etal of the room sat a gorgeously sly attai od man I 1 surrounded by flattering courtiers into that brilliant assemblage binge a poor peasant girl was ushered her tali twit d face uco was homely but lighted by unusually large melancholy ous eyes she was joad the peu peas smila tinta daughter of bomi bont emy reiny her eyes ces swept the guy gay court rested indifferently on the g form in ID the chair of state ate lien licit pas pt isted on to a fur far corner of the he room where sho singled out a plainly dres dressed sed man who i stood unnoticed in a leser leafier group of court courtiers 1 ers going up to this man site sho knelt before film saying you are Cli charles arles the dauphin crown prince of francel france 1 A murmur of amaze amazement n lent ran through the listening crowd the dauphin raised the peasant girl to her feet the smile of derision that thai had culled tits tips gave place to a took look of awe joan of ares arcs career had begun france end and england had for cen aurles been bitter foes they ere forever tit at war with each net 1 01 other I 1 ter these wars wara endured at intervals un until tit the battle of waterloo in 1815 france tied find been repeatedly beaten by the better disciplined islanders invasion after invasion on the part of the english liml had torn away more and wore more french territory all ry and had find annexed it to eng lund land edward ill III had several times 1 invaded 1 v abed france tind hla his son the 1 1 1 ack prince in the battles of crecy and of poitiers 1316 13 M and 1313 had wrecked frances military power the allock prince has come down through history as the very lower of chivalry whereas as a R matter of fact ho he was a brutal freebooter later henry V ot of ii england had further subdued france until early in the fifteenth century angland had conquered all the country north of it the river loire and the llie infant son ol of henry V was crowned not only king of england but of 0 france as aa well france lying helpless almost passive in the grip of tier her british masters charles son of if the french king and rightful heir to the french throne should have been crowned on his fat fathers tiers death but he had no genius or ambition and was 1118 content toy pend his time in idleness and dissipation si uncrowned while tits his kingdom slipped away brodt tits lilg nerveless hands affairs had reached tilts this point when joan of are arc appen appeared red she hod find based pc aed lier her childhood in the forest of Domi renty ht at the lie edge of the lie brov ince of lorraine where slie she tended her fat tiers flocks excelled tit at houses boure wifely arts and r all offers of love she could neither read nor write but she had bad heard of the prophecy made of old by the magl magician elart merlan that Fril france fice in the hour of fit need deed should bo be s saved ed hy byi a iii maiden alden tradition had bad added abed that tho the maiden should come from Doni remy joan blooded brooded bro oded over tills prophecy in her long hours of solitude in fields and woods until the bhe hypnotized herself into the belief that she heard divine voices telling hr har she was the holy to rescue her country from ruin at this juncture the english captured orleans the way to all southern france joan declared declared that the voices v 0 is bade I 1 her to wrest orleans orlean croul the Inva luva dorlind derand to crown charlet at akelina with this double rim aim in view and backed by the clamor of popular feeling she secured an in with charles to deceive tier her he decked out a courtier in hla his royal robes and hl himself in it stood in a remote corner joan ht at once saw through the imposition so go impressed was WAB charles that he gave her an army of about 4 10 00 men and sent her against orleans site she had no military knowledge no education of any sort yet she had find absolute faith in her ber own inspiration a and she inspired her lold lera with the lie an same me belief incidentally she worked strongly upon the abe superstitious fears of the english clad in mall mail and carrying it a sacred banner she rude rode nt at the head oi of lie her army captured orleans beat tle lie anglish in battle it after ter battle and drove thern them helter belter beyond the loire then she returned and amsl assisted ted at charles charlea cor conation at ifer her double mission thus accomplished shed site she berged leave to go bit back k c to tier flocks and the quiet life of tier her village rut kut Clu irle would not fint hear bear of it yc he ennobled tier her and her family and sent lier her to brebt paris froni the in vain slie she pleaded that she had bad no further divine call charles relied on the lie fanatic enthusiasm of tier her soldiers to sweep till all before t labru so she obeyed nut but site lie was VAS hence forth no nio b a mere woman 1 on n sell september fl 1420 4 21 she attacked paris ris nut but was deafen beaten bick back and YA aided wi indea ded fetyk or divine power so soon n afterward she wnm i C charlea arles rho owed tier his big m made no efort to ransom or reikus rescue her the tn english glish tried tier her as 28 ik a soe rems and a heretic although no ni crime or deceit could be proven rigal rist her they pronounced her guilty and op off may SO 30 H burred tier at the stake slake thus died joau joan of are arc licay martyr in aldand tile the bruet purest patriot the world tuia u ever unora ki ioro |