ABSTRACT
THE statue of the celebrated Jeanne d’ Arc, the maid of Orléans, is erected in the principal street of the town. Wherever I travel in France, it seems as if I were haunted by this Jeanne d’ Arc. I left her lately at Rouen, an 152here I find her at Orléans; and in both places I fancy the looks at me with an air of reproach. This monument, erected at Orléans, in honour of her exploits, by Charles the Seventh, is a striking testimony of the barbarous state of the arts at that period. The Virgin Mary is placed in the middle of the monument, holding a dead Christ on her knees: on one side is Charles the Seventh kneeling, and on the other the Maid of Orleans in the fame attitude. Their figures are so rude, misshapen, and grotesque, that it requires some deliberation to determine which is Charles the Seventh, and which is the Maid of Orleans.
