could not at first reach her--and she was in consequence consumed by a
slow fire: her tortures being long and horrible." Hume has been rather
too brief: but he judiciously observes that the conduct of the Duke of
Bedford "was equally barbarous and dishonourable." Indeed it were
difficult to pronounce which is entitled to the greatest
abhorrence--the imbecility of Charles VII. the baseness of John of
Luxembourg, or the treachery of the Regent Bedford?

The _identical_ spot on which she suffered is not now visible,
according to Millin; that place having been occupied by the late
_Marché des Veaux_. It was however not half a stone's throw from the
site of the present statue. In the _Antiquités 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
gémir cette infortunée," 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 _Itinéraire de Rouen_ (p.