[The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) CHAPTER VII 26/37
71, 72, 73, 171.] [Footnote 759: Labbe, _Sacro-Sancta Consilia_ (1671), vol.ii, pp. 413, 434.] [Footnote 760: Surius, _Vitae S.S._ (1618), vol.i, pp.
21-24.
Gabriel Brosse, _Histoire abregee de la vie et de la translation de Sainte Euphrosine, Vierge d'Alexandrie, patronne de l'abbaye de Beaulieu-les-Compiegne_, Paris, 1649, in 8vo.] Certain of her questioners inquired why she called Charles Dauphin instead of giving him his title of King.
This title had been his by right since the 30th of October, 1422; for on that day, the ninth since the death of the King his father, at Mehun-sur-Yevre, in the chapel royal, he had put off his black gown and assumed the purple robe, while the heralds, raising aloft the banner of France, cried: "Long live the King!" She answered: "I will not call him King until he shall have been anointed and crowned at Reims.
To that city I intend to take him."[761] [Footnote 761: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.
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