ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about myth of Joan of Arc that existed before the historical figure. These are all credible historical events, and the life of Joan of Arc could in fact be described in realistic terms, without any reference to miracles. Fired by revolutionary ideas, Robert Southey was intensely interested in the Maid, whom he saw as the epitome of the people's struggle against those in power, Joan of Arc 1795. The five volumes of the Proces, 1841, which dealt with the sentencing and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, published not only the minutes of the trials which were already common knowledge, but also numerous documents in Latin and French, which had been found in hitherto unexplored archives. But in order to understand how Joan could be adopted by both individualists and conservatives, it is necessary to go back to Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, 1923. Joan of Arc is the embodiment of occasionally contradictory ideologies.
