gracieuse de visage, of a pleasing countenance

Page 13. — l. bien, indeed ’ certainly , or to be sure.

2. avant son age de raison, before she had reached the age of discretion.

3. bois Chenu, oak wood. The word Chenu means “ hoary ” but the mediaeval prophecy seems to have been modified in the popular mind to Old French chesnu , “ oak,” and applied to the forest near Domremy.

NOTES

Page 14. — i. son matin, his life's morning.

2. Merlin was a celebrated mathematician and scholar in the fifth century. He is made to play an important part as a magician in romances of chivalry, e.g., the epic poems of the Italian poet, Ludovico Ariosto (1474- * 533 )-

3. La beautd meditative et recueillie de Jeanne, freely, the beauty of Jeanne's thoughtful and reflective face .