Note 350 — Chapter X · Gothic Art in Normandy[314]

Jules Quicherat, the archæologist, was the first to place before the public the records of Jeanne d’Arc’s two trials. He printed (1841-49) five volumes in Latin for the Société de l’histoire de France. Accounts of Jeanne have been written by Wallon (Paris, 1877); Marius Sepet (Tours, 1885); Ayroles, S. J. (Paris, 1902), who dwells much on the nefarious part played by Paris University in her condemnation: Siméon Luce; G. Hanotaux (Paris, 1911); Petit de Julleville (Les Saints Collection, Paris, Lecoffre, 1907); Andrew Lang (London, 1908): Mrs. Oliphant (Leaders of the Nation Series, New York); D. Lynch, S. J. (New York, 1919); Sarrazin, Jeanne d’Arc et la Normandie au XVe siècle (Rouen, 1896); F. Poulaine, Jeanne d’Arc à Rouen (Paris, 1899); Ch. Lemire, Jeanne d’Arc en Picardie et en Normandie (Paris, 1903); Le P. Denifle et Chatelain, Le procès Jeanne d’Arc et l’université de Paris (Paris); U. Chevalier, L’abjuration de Jeanne d’Arc; C. de Maleissye, “La prétendue abjuration de St. Ouen,” in Revue des Deux Mondes, February, 1911, p. 610. The study of Anatole France on Jeanne d’Arc is written from the rationalist standpoint that considers hers a case of hysteria fitted for medical science. No book on Jeanne equals the contemporary records. The report of her two trials in Rouen, and the testimony gathered from end to end of France to vindicate her memory in 1456, have been marshaled and clarified in a skilled legal manner by a magistrate of Rouen: E. O’Reilly, Les deux procès de condamnation ... et la sentence de réhabilitation de Jeanne d’Arc (Paris, Pion, 1868), 2 vols. This masterly work should be translated into English. It is an example of the right way to write history. For Charles VII see Thomas Basin and Vallet de Viriville.