Here is the brief fragment which that chapter contains:-- "In those days the Lord stirred up the spirit of a certain marvellous Maiden, born on the borders of France, in the duchy of Lorraine, and the see of Toul, towards the Imperial territories.

This Maiden her father and mother employed in tending sheep; daily, too, did she handle the distaff; man's love she knew not; no sin, as it is said, was found in her, to her innocence the neighbours bore witness.

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" Here the Latin narrative of the one man who followed Jeanne d'Arc through good and evil to her life's end breaks off abruptly.