Mr.Andrew Lang's praiseworthy scruples with regard to my references have caused me to correct some and to add several.
The hagiographers alone are openly hostile.

They reproach me, not with my manner of explaining the facts, but with having explained them at all.

And the more my explanations are clear, natural, rational and derived from the most authoritative sources, the more these explanations displease them.

They would wish the history of Joan of Arc to remain mysterious and entirely supernatural.

I have restored the Maid to life and to humanity.