Dihdins Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany. fi03 



a most palpable chaiiire.' All, my 

 friend, what eicotions were once excite<l 

 within this small space! What curi- 

 osity, and even agony of mind, mingled 

 v.'itli the tumnlts of indignation, the 

 shouts of revenge, and fiie exclamations 

 of pity ! But life now goes on just 

 the same as if mithing remarkable had 

 happeued here. The past is forgotten. 

 Nor smoke nor (lame is seen ; nor the 

 shrieks of the sufferer are heard. Poor 

 Joan ! — she is one of the many who, 

 having been tortured as a heretic, have 

 been afterwards reverenced as a mar- 

 tyr. Her statue was, not very long 

 after her execution, almost adoj-ed upon 

 that very spot wliere her body had b'^en 

 consigned, with execralious, to the 

 flame>;. As I gazed upon the present 

 wretched sculptured representation of 

 lier, I could not but think of the sleepy 

 attempt of Chapelaine, and the more 

 animated effort of our Southey— to im- 

 mortalize her memory. Tile prison 

 where Joan of Arc was coniined, yet 

 partly exists ; and the spot where she 

 was burnt is attested both by a foun- 

 tain and a statue, in the centre of the 

 square. The present statue is indeed 

 friglitful in every respect. It is de- 

 fective in form, and divested of the 

 costuaie of tile time; two faults vvhich 

 no other beauties (had it possessed any) 

 could have compensated. 



ROUEN PRINTING. 



The art of Printing is supposed to 

 have been introduced here, by a citizen 

 of the name of Maufer, between the 

 years 1470 and 1480. 



Ilichard I. 



Cor 



Richardi Reg'is Anglice 



NormaiaiicL' Ducis 



Cor Leouis Dicti 



Obiit Anno 



- 3t<, . MCXCIX. 



:'CO!(v.!;„- ~~~^ 



, r Henry ihe Younger. 



Hie Jacet 



Henricus junior 



Richardi Regis Anglia; 



Cor Leouis Dicti Frater 



Obiit Anno 



MCLXXXIII. 



Jok7i Bulic of Bedford. 

 Ad dcxtnuii Altaris Latus 

 Jacet 

 Joannes Dux Betfordi 

 Normaiiuioe pro Rex 

 Obiit Aiiiio 

 MCCCCXXXV. 

 The above is the famous Duke of 

 Bedford, of Bibliomaniacal celebrity. 

 Consult for one minute the Bibl. Deca- 

 vieroit, vol, 1. p. cxxxvi. There is a 

 curious cliapter in Porameraye's H''s- 

 toiro de PEglise Cathedra! ds Rouen, 

 p. 203, respecting the Duke's taking 

 the habit of a canon of the cathedral. 

 He attended, witli his first wife, Anne 

 of BCRGUNDV, and threAV himself 

 upon the liberality and kindness of the 

 monks, to be received by them as one 

 -of their order : " il les prioit d'etre 

 reyeu parmy eux comme nn do leurs 

 fr^r^s, et d'avoir tons les jours distri- 

 bution de pain et de viu. et pour marque 

 de frat«roite d'etre vetu du surplis et 

 de I'aumusse: comme aussi d'etre 

 associe, luy et sa tres g^nereuse et tres 

 illustre Spouse, aux suffrages de leur 

 -compagnie, et a la participation de 

 tous les biens qu'il plaira a Dieu leur 

 donner la grace d'operer." p. 204. A 

 grand procession marked the day of the 

 Duke's admission into the monkish 

 fraternit}'. The whole of tliis with the 

 Duke's superb presents to the sacristy, 

 and his dining with his Duchess, and 

 receiving their por.tion of " eight loaves 

 and four gallons of wine," are distinct- 

 ly nan-ated by the minute Pommeraye, 



JOAN OP ARC, 



Turning to the left, in this street, 

 and going down a sharp descent, we 

 observe a stand of hackney coaches in 

 a small square, called La Place de In 

 Pucelle ; that is, the place wliere tlie 

 famous Jeanne d'Arc was imprisoned, 

 ind afterwards burnt. AVbat sensa- 

 tions possess one as we gaze u|)on each 

 surrounding object! — although nov\-, 

 each gurrounding objecthas undergone 



* The unfortunate sufferer is thus de- 

 scribed by a French poet of the latter end 

 of the 15th century. 



***** 



Et a Rouen en emmenerent 

 La Pucelle pour prisonniere. 



Eile est trcs douUce, amiable, 

 Moutonne, sans orgueil ne envie, 

 Gracieuss, moult serviable, 

 Et Tjui mecoit bien belle vie. 



Tres vouvent elle se confessoit. 

 Pour avoir Dieu en protecteur, 

 Ne g-aire Feste se passoit, 

 Que ne rcceust son C'reateur. 



Mais ce nou obstant les Angloys 

 Aux vertuz et biens ne pensereut, 

 Aini^ois en haine des Fran^oys 

 Tres dureuicnt si la traicterer.t. 



• * * # * 



Puis au derreuier la condaranerent 

 A mourir douloureuseinenf, 

 Et brief I'arderent ct brullerent ' 



A Rouen tout pubiiqucmcut. ' 



Les Poesies de Martial de Paris. Paris 

 1724, )2mo.toin I p. 120. 



Some 



