Memoirs of Jeanne D'Arc, Surnamed la Pucelle D'Orléans |
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Author:
| Arc, Jeanne D' |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-01878-4 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $21.57 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DESCRIPTION THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATED AT ORLEANS, On the 6th of May, TO COMMEMORATE THE RAISING OF THE SIEGE OF THAT CITY JEANNE D'ARC, SURNAMED LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS. DESCRIPTION, ETC. ETC. This ceremony, which had been regularly observed at Orleans from the time of Charles VII., was, together with...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DESCRIPTION THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATED AT ORLEANS, On the 6th of May, TO COMMEMORATE THE RAISING OF THE SIEGE OF THAT CITY JEANNE D'ARC, SURNAMED LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS. DESCRIPTION, ETC. ETC. This ceremony, which had been regularly observed at Orleans from the time of Charles VII., was, together with many other customs that had prevailed under the French monarchy, discontinued during the stormy period of the Revolution; but on Napoleon's accession to power, the festival was revived, and is now observed with all possible eclat. The following account, translated from the verbal process written by the Count de Rocheplatte, who presided at the ffete in his capacity of mayor of Orleans, in 1817, may give the reader some idea of the ceremony. On the 7th of May, at eleven in the morning, young Morin, (Etienne Hippolite Leon, ) nine years of age, son of Philippe Antoine Pascal Morin, cooper, and Elizabeth Pierron, who had been selected by the mayor, a month previous, to be the representative of Jeanne d'Arc, was conducted to the town house of Orleans, by his parents; he was there dressed in the ancient costume which had been regularly adopted on these occasions, consisting of an under vest of red silk slashed with yellow, short breeches of the same colour with long openings, yellow silk hose, grey shoes with red and yellow roses, a bonnetof grey felt, turned up a la Henri IV., surmounted by a plume of red and yellow feathers; and at his side he wore an antique sword, with a girdle of scarlet cloth edged with gold. At twelve o'clock precisely, the youthful representative of La Pucelle, bearing a white banner powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, accompanied by a detachment of troops, preceded by the drummers and trumpeters of the national guard, marc...