of the preceding work, with additional proofs, and more ample in the detail; according to Abbé Lenglet; ibid.

The armorial bearings of La Pucelle, her brothers, and her posterity, were, on an azure ground, a silver sword in pale, the point upwards, crossed and powdered with gold, having on either side a golden fleur de lys, surmounted by a crown of gold; according to the testimony of Monstrelet, who was a cotemporary of the Pucelle; see Book ii. of his Chronicles, as well as Wassebourg, Belleforest, Stephen Pasquier, Andrew Thévet, Claude Paradin, La Roque, and others. The last mentioned writer, in chapter xliii. of his Traîté de la Noblesse, after having dwelt upon that of Jeanne d'Arc, recites the most striking occurrences of her life and her death. He then enters into a detail of the principal authors who have written respecting her, and refuted the crimes which were alleged against her by calumny. La Pucelle was ennobled, together with all her relatives, by letters patent of King Charles VII. ratified at Meung near Orleans, in the month of December, 1429. Nobility in the female descendants of the brothers of La Pucelle was, however, suppressed by a decree of the parliament in 1614.

The family of this famous woman became extinct in the person of Messire Henry François de Coulombe Dulys, a canon of Champeaux and prior of Coutras, who died on the 29th of June 1760: he was the last male representative; and with him the pension allowed by the Court also ceased.

This treatise concerning the name and the armorial bearings of La Pucelle, &c. is also printed at the termination of the ensuing work.

Recueil d'Inscriptions proposées pour remplir les tables d'attente, étant sous les statues du Roi Charles VII., et de la Pucelle d'Orléans, qui sont élevées également armées et à genoux sur le pont de la ville d'Orléans, dès l'an 1458, avec le discours sommaire tant du nom et des armes que de la naissance et parenté de la Pucelle, &c.; Paris, 1613, in quarto.

This same production, considerably augmented by numerous poetic compositions, written in honour of Jeanne d'Arc, of her brothers, and of their posterity, was also printed at Paris, in 1628; in quarto.

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The present collection, extremely rare and very curious, is preferable to the other edition, inasmuch as it contains several documents not inserted in the prior impression. It was written by Charles Dulys, counsellor of state and advocate-general of the court of Aids at Paris, being a lineal descendant of one of the brothers of La Pucelle. It contains a great number of inscriptions and the poetic effusions of a variety of celebrated authors, such as, Charles de la Saussaie, Nicholas Rigaud, James Goutier, &c. &c. See more upon this subject under the article of Inscriptions, contained in the present volume.

Histoire de la Pucelle d'Orleans, en quatre livres; par Edmond Richer, docteur en théologie, manuscript, in folio.

Abbé Lenglet, who states his having perused and well examined this work, does not speak much in its commendation. He says, that prior to reading the two processes of La Pucelle, and the other documents of the period, he thought well of this production; "but," continues

he," as soon as I had glanced at the originals, I found that Edmund Richer had not written in a luminous or instructive manner :" this assertion, however, is not strictly correct, nor does it render that justice to Richer, to which he is really entitled.

The present manuscript was preserved in the library of Mr. Thuillier, of Orleans, doctor and physician of the faculty of Paris. Book the first contains the history of La Pucelle; the second her process and condemnation, with reflections upon every article and each sitting, together with the original documents that were brought forward; the third book gives the revisal of the process, with the original matter produced as proof; and in the fourth are enumerated the names of all those who have written concerning Jeanne d'Arc. The author died in 1633.

This volume, the original of Richer's work, is now in the Royal Library at Paris, and an account of it may be found in the Memoirs of Abbé d'Artigny, vol. vii. p. 324, &c. This history obtained the approbation of the doctors in 1630, and a privilege for its being printed in 1691. See also Mr. Laverdy's notice respecting the manuscripts in the Royal Library, vol. iii. pages 186-189. Lenglet Dufresnoy's production is nothing more than a plagiary from the labour of Richer.

Histoire de la Pucelle d'Orleans, par Francis Lemaire. This history is printed in that which he wrote concerning the history of Orleans, pages 185 and 304: Orleans, Maria Paris, 1648, in folio. The author developes every thing concerning La Pucelle which redounds to the

honour of the city, and he dwells at large upon the procession which annually takes place on the 8th of May, in honour of its deliverance.

Remarques sur la Pucelle d'Orleans, par l'Abbé Nicolas Lenglet.

These are printed in a work entitled L'Histoire justifiée contre les Romans; Amsterdam, Paris, 1735, in 12mo. pages 263 and 288. Among the documents at the conclusion, pages 45–50, is the extract of a work written by Postel upon the same subject.

Essai sur la question; Jeanne d'Arc a-t-elle subi réellement l'arrêt qui la condamnait au supplice du feu; par M. de Lanevere, ancien Mousquetaire: Mercure, 1764, November, page 44.

Another letter upon the same subject, by Lemoine, ibid.

Lettre écrite de Munich, sur la bataille d'Azincour et sur la Pucelle d'Orleans, à l'occasion des tomes xiii. et xiv. de l'Histoire de France, par M. Villaret: Gazette Littéraire, 1764, tome iii. page 63.

Letter from M. Villaret in reply to the preceding, ibid. page 263.

L'Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, Vierge, Heroine et Martyre d'Etat, suscitée par la Providence pour retablir la Monarchie Française, tirée des Procés et autres pièces originales du tems, par M. l'Abbé N. Lenglet Dufresnoy: Paris, 1753, in 12mo. 2 vols.

Volume the first comprises two parts: the first con

taining an ample preface, with reflections of the author on the exploits of La Pucelle, and the proceedings instituted against her; the second part contains the process of her justification, and an extract from some documents relating to the two processes. At the end is a list of manuscript and printed accounts of Jeanne d'Arc, with remarks upon each, by M. Lenglet.

Volume the second contains the third part, comprising several testimonies or extracts from various authors, respecting La Pucelle, with notes and refutations of some writers. Different systems imagined to explain the phenomena of the Pucelle d'Orleans. An heroic parallel of the courage of Jeanne d'Arc, with that of several other illustrious heroines. Immunities granted to the city of Orleans. Letters of nobility given by Charles VII. to La Pucelle, her whole family and posterity. Additions to the list at the conclusion of the second part.

This work is nothing more than an abridgement of a manuscript history of La Pucelle, composed by Edmund Richer, a doctor of the Sorbonne, celebrated for his writings, and still more, on account of his misfortunes.

Edmund Richer, a French divine, was a native of Chaource, in the diocese of Langres, in 1560. He became grand master of the college of Le Moine, and afterwards syndic of the faculty of divinity at Paris. Richer opposed the papal authority, in a treatise," On the Civil and Ecclesiastical Power," which created so much noise, that the author was deposed, and sent to prison, from whence he was not released until he had made his submission. He died in 1631. Richer was also the author of "A History of the General Councils," 4 vols. 4to., and other works.