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oulins. 24th La Charite-sur-Loire, Meun-sur-Yevre. DECEMBER. Jargeau. 1430. JANUARY. 18th Bourges. 19th Orleans. MARCH. 3rd Sully. 28th Flight from Sully. APRIL. 15th Before Melun, Lagny, Sortie against Franquet d'Arras, Senlis, Compiegne, Pont l'Eveque, Soissons, Compiegne. MAY. Lagny, Crecy, Compiegne. 28th Sortie from Compiegne against Margny and Clairvoix. JUNE, JULY. At Beaulieu-en-Vermandois. AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER. Beaurevoir, Arras, Drugy, near Saint Riquier, Le Crotoy. DECEMBER. Saint Valery-sur-Somme, Eu, Dieppe, Rouen. 1431. JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY. Rouen. Sismondi devotes a part of the thirteenth volume of his _History of France_, published between 1821 and 1844, to the Maid of Orleans. He sums up the action of the Church to her in these words: 'The Church was against the Maid. All persons not delegated by her who pretended to have supernatural powers were accused of using magical arts.' Barante in his famous history of the Dukes of Burgundy, published in 1824, gives a somewhat meagre and uninteresting account of Joan of Arc. In 1821 appeared a _Life_ of the heroine, by Jollois, under whose direction the little monument was placed at Domremy in honour of the Maid. Alexandre Dumas has left among his numberless works a Life of _Johanne la Pucelle,_ which is neither true history nor romance, but a jumble of both, and is a work hardly worthy the author, but there are some fine expressions in the book. Dumas christened Joan of Arc 'The Christ of France.' Michelet in the fifth volume of his _Histoire de France_ published in 1841, has written what will probably always be considered the best account of the Maid. Although only one hundred and thirty pages are given to her life, these pages form a book in themselves, and as a separate volume Michelet's _Life of Joan of Arc_ has gone through a large number of editions, the latest a handsome illustrated one, published by Hachette in 1888. One cannot help regretting that so great a writer should allow his Anglophobism to appear to such an extent in some of the pages of his work. Michelet attacks the entire English nation as if they had been individually and collectively guilty of Joan of Arc's death. He even goes out of his way to abuse English literature in this amazing passage: 'De Shakespeare a Milton, de Milton a By
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