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On the Character and Hallucinations of Joan of Arc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William W. Ireland*
Affiliation:
Home and School for Imbeciles, Preston Lodge, Prestonpans

Extract

Joan's glory reached its highest point when she led the Dauphin to be crowned at Rheims. Up to this time every thing had gone on as she desired, and as she had predicted. The caution of experienced generals had again and again been overruled by her impetuous call for action. One blow after another had been struck, and every blow told. Fortifications, apparently too strong for the force brought against them, had been stormed; seven cities had been taken; and at Patay an English army had been scattered and slaughtered like a herd of deer. The newly-crowned King was urged unwillingly to St. Denis, and a furious assault made upon Paris from noon to sunset.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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