7).] But in the year XI the First Consul, who had just concluded the Concordat and was meditating the restoration of all the pageantry of the coronation, reinstituted the festival of the Maid with its incense and its crosses.

Glorified of old in Charles VII's letters to his good towns, Jeanne was now exalted in _Le Moniteur_ by Bonaparte.[123] [Footnote 123: "The illustrious Jeanne d'Arc has proved that there is no miracle which the French genius is incapable of working when national independence is at stake" (_Moniteur_ of 10 Pluviose, year XI, January 30, 1803).

For the approval of the First Consul: facsimile in A.Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, p.600.

[Original taken from the Reiset collection.]] Only by constant transformation do the figures of poetry and history live in the minds of nations.

Humanity cannot be interested in a personage of old time unless it clothe it in its own sentiments and in its own passions.