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Written at the aforesaid Rheims, the seventeenth day of July, 1429. When the letter was finished Jeanne put on her armour and prepared for the great ceremony.
But in the February of 1429 four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at Rouvray-en-Beausse in that encounter between the French and the English which history has commemorated as the Battle of the Herrings.
The present edifice owes its existence to the Abbé Suger who reigned here in the days of Saint Louis. There have been many restorations, of course, and some very bad ones as late as the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. In this basilica the Emperor Napoleon was married to the Archduchess Marie Louise and, what is more interesting to us, here Joan of Arc hung up her arms, in 1429.
Charles announced to his subjects early in 1429 that an army of 6000 Scots was to land in France; that James himself, if necessary, would follow; but Jeanne d'Arc declared that there was no help from Scotland, none save from God and herself.
Cosimo de' Medici was thirty years old when his father Giovanni died, in 1429. During his youth he had devoted all his time and energy to business, mastering the complicated affairs of Giovanni's banking-house, and travelling far and wide through Europe to extend its connections.
Honoré, now Café de la Régence, beloved of chess players, is the site of the Porte St. Honoré of the Charles V. wall before which Joan of Arc was wounded at the Siege of Paris in 1429. We enter the gardens of the Palais by the colonnade to the R. of the Théâtre Français and pass N. along the W. colonnade.
"The King will follow Christ, and we the King, In whom high God hath breathed a secret thing." In history we find the same situation in the France of 1429 "The King will follow Jeanne, and we the King." While this faith held, all went well; when the king ceased to follow, the spell was broken, the Maid was martyred.
She was authorized to do so, and, on the 6th of March, 1429, she with her comrades arrived at the royal residence. At the very first moment two incidents occurred to still further increase the curiosity of which she was the object. Quite close to Chinon some vagabonds, it is said, had prepared an ambuscade for the purpose of despoiling her, her and her train.
He made, however, no effort to assert himself or retrieve his fortunes; and the English captains in the name of their baby King took possession of one fortress after another, till, in 1429, Orleans was the only French city of rank still barring their way from Charles and the far south.
THE 5th of January, 1429, Joan came to me with her uncle Laxart, and said: "The time is come. My Voices are not vague now, but clear, and they have told me what to do. In two months I shall be with the Dauphin." Her spirits were high, and her bearing martial.
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