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the enthusiastic respect they felt for the memory of Jeanne d'Arc, that the national guard of Vaucouleurs had impressed on the buttons of their uniforms the arms of the family of Dulys, which had been till then preserved in the front of the dwelling of Le Picard Dulys, otherwise called d'Arbamont; and several inns of the town still retain for their signs rude effigies of La Pucelle d'Orléans. In respect to the house where she spent the short time prior to her departure, and the name of the host of which has been preserved, no indication on that head is now known for a certainty.

Near the village of Naives in Blois, situate in the district of Commercy, department of the Meuse, two leagues distant from Vaucouleurs, is one of those popular memorials, which, preserved by uninterrupted tradition, point out the route she followed to avoid the ravaging hordes of Burgundians who infested the vicinity of Vaucouleurs. This road still bears the name of the Way of La Pucelle, and is in every respect accordant with the route pointed out in our Itinerary.

Toul, the most ancient and at that period a town of the greatest importance in the vicinity of Jeanne's native place, had also consecrated a religious monument to her memory. This relic existed in the remarkable edifice that was due to the ancient bishops and to the zeal of their ancestors. But the demons of anarchy, who, during the revolution destroyed in the palace of the government of Nancy the divinities of heathen mythology, together with every remnant of aristocracy, in the first instance, afterwards vented their rage against the images of saints and heroes which decorated the cathedral pile of this city. The monument of

Jeanne d'Arc among others was not spared: it was erected by Claude Hordal, commendatory prior of Bleurville, archdeacon of Port, and grand deacon of the chapter of the cathedral of Toul. It consisted of a statue of the natural size, and in every respect similar to that which had existed at Domremy. This was affixed to the second pillar of the chapel of the visitation, and the iron hold-fasts which served to support it are still extant, but every other vestige has disappeared. Kneeling with joined hands and in the act of prayer, Jeanne seemed to regard the sanctuary, towards which she appeared in the act of addressing the genius that animates heroes, and tendering proofs of her grateful spirit. As Claude Hordal, son of Stephen Hordal, who married Henrietta Dulys, daughter of Pierre d'Arc, was grand deacon about the middle of the sixteenth century; there is every reason to conjecture that this effigy dated from that period, and was a copy of the figure which stood upon the bridge at Orleans; the destruction, however, of this relic, prevents the possibility of any further research upon the subject.

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