342 _et seq._] Rapid as this examination of authorities has been, I think nothing essential has been omitted.

To sum up, even in her lifetime the Maid was scarce known save by fables.

Her oldest chroniclers were devoid of any critical sense, for the early legends concerning her they relate as facts.
The Rouen trial, certain accounts, a few letters, sundry deeds, public and private, are the most trustworthy documents.

The rehabilitation trial is also useful to the historian, provided always that we remember how and why that trial was conducted.
By means of such records we may attain to a pretty accurate knowledge of Jeanne d'Arc's life and character.
The salient fact which results from a study of all these authorities is that she was a saint.

She was a saint with all the attributes of fifteenth-century sanctity.