tendant, Maitre, par la grace de Dieu, je serai ce soir en paradis. There is a tradition that, when she expired, a white dove was seen to rise from the pile. Among the divines who had condemned her, there was only one Englishman, the bishop of Winchester. In 1450 and 1451, measures were taken for revising the process. 1455, the relations of Joan applied for a revision. Pope Calixtus III. committed the affair to the archbishop of Rheims, the bishops of Paris and Coutance, and an inquisitor. This court pronounced, in 1456, their decision, that the twelve articles alleged against her were false, and declared her entirely innocent. Her memory was preserved by monuments. In the market-place at Rouen, there is a statue of her, on which, under her coat of arms, is the inscription Regia virgineo defenditur ense corona; Lilia virgineo tuta sub ense nitent. The maiden's sword protects the royal crown; According to the portrait of the maid, which Alex. Lenoir discovered in the town-house at Orleans, where there is also a statue of her, and which he sent to the Paris museum of French monuments Aux petits Augustins, she must have been exceedingly beautiful. Her features have a soft and enthusiastic expression; they have what the French call l'interet du calme. She has a cap with feathers on her head, and is holding in her hands a shield and the consecrated sword. A monument, with her bust, in marble, was erected to her in Domremy, September, 1820. QUEEN BATHILDA. AINT BATHILDA, or Baldschild, Queen of France, was descended from the ancient house of Saxony. In her most tender youth she was exposed to sale as a slave, on the coast of France; perhaps by Corsairs who had carried her off; perhaps by her own parents, according to the barbarous custom which the Anglo-Saxons then had of selling their children. She was bought at a cheap price by Erchinoald, or Erchenwald, whom we call Archambaud, and who became, soon after, mayor of the palace under Clovis II. Perfectly beautiful, skilful, wise, modest, mild, obliging-her manners, and a certain majesty which appeared in all her actions, showed the greatness of her birth. But instead of glorying in these advantages, she regarded herself as the last servant in the family to which her new condition attached her. Her high reputation caused her soon to be elevated from her humble condition, to the throne of France. When it was determined that Clovis II. should marry, it was resolved to give him for his companion the most accomplished person of the kingdom; and every one declared in favour of Bathilda. Bathilda soon remedied the disorders that had caused the weakness of this prince. Her elevation, far from removing her humility and piety, served but to set these virtues in a stronger light. She did not take part in the administration of the affairs of the kingdom, but in order to keep up peace and union, and to render religion triumphant. She caused the taxes to be reduced, abolished many regulations, in order to relieve the poor, and to assist the widows and orphans. After having pacified the contentions of the kingdom, and re-established every where, a good spirit, she applied herself to the work of abolishing serfdom, which still existed |