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

CHAPTER I
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Although she came from the quarter of Domremy nearest Greux, she kept her feast, not at Notre-Dame de Bermont, but at the Gooseberry Spring and _l'Arbre-des-Fees_.[209] [Footnote 209: _Ibid._, pp.

391-462.] In her early childhood she danced round the tree with her companions.
She wove garlands for the image of Notre-Dame de Domremy, whose chapel crowned a neighbouring hill.

The maidens were wont to hang garlands on the branches of _l'Arbre-des-Fees_.

Jeanne, like the others, bewreathed the tree's branches; and, like the others, sometimes she left her wreaths behind and sometimes she carried them away.

No one knew what became of them; and it seems their disappearance was such as to cause wise and learned persons to wonder.
One thing, however, is sure: that the sick who drank from the spring were healed and straightway walked beneath the tree.[210] [Footnote 210: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.


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