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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

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37 _et seq._ M.le Docteur G.de Closmadeuc has kindly lent me his valuable work, as yet unpublished, on Yves Nicolazic, which is characterised by the same exactness of information and of criticism as are to be found in his studies of local history.] [Footnote 83: _Recueil des ouvrages de la celebre Mademoiselle Labrousse, du Bourg de Vauxains, en Perigord, canton de Ribeirac de la Dordogne, actuellement prisonniere au chateau Saint-Ange, a Rome_, Bordeaux, 1797, in 8vo; E.Lairtullier, _Les femmes celebres de 1789 a 1795_, Paris, 1842, in 8vo, vol.i, pp.

212 _et seq._; Abbe Chr.
Moreau, _Une mystique revolutionnaire Suzette Labrousse_, Paris, 1886, in 8vo; A.France, _Susette Labrousse_, Paris, 1907, in 12mo.] Three visionaries especially are closely related to Jeanne.

The earliest in date is a vavasour of Champagne, who had a mission to speak to King John; of this holy man I have written sufficiently in the present work.

The second is a farrier of Salon, who had a mission to speak to Louis XIV; the third, a peasant of Gallardon, named Martin, who had a mission to speak to Louis XVIII.

Articles on the farrier and the farmer, who both saw apparitions and showed signs to their respective kings, will be found in the appendices at the end of this work.[84] In spite of difference in sex, the points of similarity between Jeanne d'Arc and these three men are very close and very significant; they are inherent in the very nature of Jeanne and her fellow visionaries; and the variations, which at a first glance might seem to separate widely the latter from Jeanne, are aesthetic, social, historical, and consequently external and contingent.


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