t statue. In the _Antiquites Nationales_ of the last
mentioned author (vol. iii. art. xxxvi.) there are three plates
connected with the History of JOAN of ARC. The _first_ plate
represents the _Porte Bouvreuil_ to the left, and the circular old
tower to the right--in which latter Joan was confined, with some
houses before it; the middle ground is a complete representation of
the rubbishing state by which many of the public buildings at Rouen
are yet surrounded; and French taste has enlivened the foreground with
a picture of a lover and his mistress, in a bocage, regaling
themselves with a flagon of wine. The old circular tower ("qui vit
gemir cette infortunee," says Millin) exists no longer. The second
plate represents the fountain which was built in the market-place upon
the very spot where the Maid suffered, and which spot was at first
designated by the erection of a cross. From the style of the
embellishments it appears to have been of the time of Francis I.

Goube has re-engraved this fountain. It was taken down or demolished
in 1755; upon the site of which was built the present tasteless
production--resembling, as the author of the _Itineraire de Rouen_ (p.
69) well observes, "rather a Pallas than the heroine of Orleans." The
name of the author was STODTS. Millin's _third_ plate--of this present
existing fountain, is desirable; in as much as it shews the front of
the house, in the interior of which are the basso-rilievos of the
_Champ de drap d'Or_: for an account of which see afterwards.

Millin allows that all PORTRAITS of her--whether in sculpture, or
painting, or engraving--are purely IDEAL. Perhaps the nearest, in
point of fidelity, was that which was seen in a painted glass window
of the church of the _Minimes_ at Chaillot: although the building was
not erected till the time of Charles VIII. Yet it might have been a
copy of some coeval production. In regard to oil paintings, I take it
that the portrait of JUDITH, with a sword in one hand, and the head of
Holofernes in the other, has been usually copied (with the omission of
the latter accompaniment) as that of JEANNE D'ARC. I hardly know a
more interesting collection of books than that which may be acquired
respecting the fate of this equally brave and unfortunate heroine.

[63] Far be it from me to depreciate the labours of Mont