CHAPTER XIII — THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION. FEBRUARY, 1431.

CHAPTER XIV —THE EXAMINATION IN PRISON. LENT, 1431.

CHAPTER XV — RE-EXAMINATION. MARCH-MAY, 1431.

CHAPTER XVI — THE ABJURATION. MAY 24, 1431.

CHAPTER XVIII — THE SACRIFICE. MAY 31, 1431.

CHAPTER XVIII — AFTER.




JEANNE D'ARC



CHAPTER I -- FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423.

It is no small effort for the mind, even of the most well-informed, how
much more of those whose exact knowledge is not great (which is the
case with most readers, and alas! with most writers also), to transport
itself out of this nineteenth century which we know so thoroughly, and
which has trained us in all our present habits and modes of thought,
into the fifteenth, four hundred years back in time, and worlds apart
in every custom and action of life. What is there indeed the same in
the two ages? Nothing but the man and the woman, the living agents in
spheres so different; nothing but love and grief, the affections and