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The Mystery of Joan of Arc 2 The Mystery of Joan of Arc By LEON DENIS Author of “Aprés La Mort” “La Grande Énigme,” ETC. Translated By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, M.D., LL.D. Président D’Honneur Du Comité Exécutif De La Fédération Spirite Spiritist Alliance for Books LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. First Edition, 1924 Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury. 3 This book is out of print indefinitely. The present copy was retyped by Antonio, edited and revised by the Editorial and Publishing Department of the Spiritist Group of New York (SGNY) and the Spiritist Alliance for Books (SAB) 2001. The Spiritist Group of New York (SGNY) is a non-profit organization, has the sole aim to promote and disseminate the Spiritist Doctrine in English, as codified by Allan Kardec. The group was officially established on April 12th, 2001. However, the members of the group have been earnestly fostering the dissemination of the Spiritist Doctrine in the United States for over six years. As a result, a number of its founders and participating members have founded The Spiritist Alliance for Books (SAB), which is an organization that aims to unite people from all over the world who are willing to volunteer in the effort of translating spiritist books (which were originally written in other languages) into English. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior permission in writing from the copyright holder. 4 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE Until one has experienced it one can hardly realize the difficulty which lies in the adequate translation of a French book, dealing with a subtle and delicate subject. Only then does one understand that not only the words, but the whole method of thought and expression are different. A literal translation becomes impossibly jerky and staccato, while a paraphrase has to be very carefully done, if one has a respect for the original. M. Leon Denis has given me an entirely free hand in the matter, but I love and admire his book so much, that I earnestly desire to reproduce the text as closely as possible. I should not have attempted the task were it not that, apart from the literary and historical aspects of the work, the psychic side is expounded by a profound student of such things, and calls therefore for some equivalent psychic knowledge upon the part of the translator. It is to be hoped, however, that the reader who is ignorant of psychic matters, or out of sympathy with them, will still be able to recognize the beauty of this picture done by one who had such love for his subject that he followed the maid every inch of the way from Domremy to Rouen. M. Denis actually lives in Tours, and is familiar with Orleans, so that he has mastered the local colour in a most unusual way. His treatment of his heroine is so complete that there is no need for me to say anything save to express my personal conviction that, next to the Christ, the highest spiritual being of whom we have any exact record upon this earth is the girl Joan. One would kneel rather than stand in her presence. We are particularly fortunate in the fact that we have fuller and more certain details of her life and character than of any celebrity in mediaeval or, perhaps, in modern history. The glorious life as so short and so public, that there was no time or place for shadows or misunderstandings. It was spent under the very eyes of the world, and is recorded in the verbatim accounts of the most searching cross- examination that ever a woman endured, supplemented by and equally close enquiry when her character was rehabilitated a generation after her death. On that occasion over a hundred witnesses who had known her were put upon oath. Apart from the question of Christ’s divinity, and comparing the two characters upon a purely human plane, there was much analogy between them. Each was sprung from the labouring class. Each proclaimed an inspired mission. Each was martyred while still young. Each was acclaimed by the common people and betrayed or disregarded by the great. Each excited the bitter hatred of the church of their time, the high priests of which in each case conspired for their death. Finally, each spoke with the same simple definite phrases, short and strong, clear and concise. Joan’s mission was on the surface warlike, but it really had the effect of ending a century of war, and her love and charity were so broad, that they could only be matched by Him who prayed for His murderers. The text will show that M. Denis is an earnest student of psychic matters, with a depth of experience which forbids us to set his opinions easily aside. His other works, especially “Aprés la Mort,” show how extensive have been his studies and how deep his convictions. There are portions of this work which bear traces of psychic influence, and he has even felt that at times he had some direct inspiration. This is a point which will seem absurd to some, and will cause even those who are sympathetic to suspend their judgment until they know more clearly what was the exact evidence which led M. Denis to such a conclusion. But if we omit or discount this personal claim there still remains a general statement which links Joan up with our modern psychic knowledge, finds a definite place for her therein, and succeeds for the first time – where Anatole France and others have failed – in giving us some intelligible reason for the obvious miracle that a girl of nineteen, who could neither read nor write, and knew nothing of military affairs, was able in a few months to turn the tide of a hundred years’ war, and to save France from becoming a vassal of England. Her achievement was attributed by herself (and she was the soul of truth) to her voices and her visions. It is M. Denis’ task to 5 show how these voices and visions fit into our present knowledge, and what were their most probable origin and meaning. I have omitted those continual footnotes and references to authorities which prove M. Denis’ accuracy and diligence but which break the narrative by drawing the reader’s eyes forever to the bottom of the page. The serious student will find them in the original, and it will suffice in this version if it be stated that the main sources of information are to be found in the “Procès de Condamnation,” the “Procès de Réhabilitation,” Henri Martin’s “Histoire de France,” Delanne’s “Fantômes des Vivants,” Denis’ “Aprés la Morte” and “Dans l’Invisible,” Cagny’s “Chronicles,” “Chronique de la Pucelle,” Quicherat’s works, Anatole France’s “Vie de Jeanne,” Richers’ “Histoire de la Pucelle,” “Registres du Parlement,” and other documents. The beautiful literary touch of M. Denis would have won him fame, whatever topic engaged his pen, but he had very peculiar qualifications for this particular work, and though his views may be somewhat ahead of the present state of public knowledge and opinion, I am convinced that in the end his contribution to the discussion regarding Joan will prove to be the most important and the truest ever made. A great crisis of world thought and experience is at hand, and when it is past such views as those of M. Denis may form the basis upon which the reformed philosophies of the future will be based. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. April, 1924. 6 JOAN From the sculpture head in the Musée du Trocadero, Paris. 7 8 C O N T E N T S TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE 5 INTRODUCTION 11 I. DOMREMY 16 II. THE SITUATION IN 1429 19 III. THE INFANCY OF JOAN OF ARC 21 IV. VAUCOULEURS 25 V. CHINON, POITIERS AND TOURS 27 VI. ORLEANS 31 VII. REIMS 33 VIII. COMPIÈGNE 39 IX. ROUEN – THE PRISON 43 X. ROUEN – THE TRIAL 45 XI. ROUEN – THE PUNISHMENT 56 XII. JOAN’S SECRET POWER 60 XIII. WHAT WERE HER VOICES? 66 XIV. ANALOGOUS POWERS, ANCIENT AND MODERN 75 XV. JOAN OF ARC AND THE MODERN PSYCHIC MOVEMENT 81 A MESSAGE 88 TRANSLATOR’S NOTE 89 9 ILLUSTRATIONS JOAN (From the sculpture head in the Musée du Trocadéro, Paris) 7 THE HOME OF JOAN AT DOMREMY 18 THE VISION OF JOAN OF ARC ( From the painting by J. E. Lenepveu) 24 THE CATHEDRAL AT REIMS 35 JOAN AT THE CORONATION OF CHARLES VII (From the painting by Ingres)38 JOAN TAKEN PRISONER (From a XVth Century Ms) 42 THE TOWER AT ROUEN CASTLE WHEREIN JOAN WAS THREATENED WITH TORTURE (After a drawing by E.H. Langlois) 53 CHARLES VII (From the Portrait at the Louvre) 69 10 INTRODUCTION The memory of Joan of Arc has never aroused such ardent and passionate controversies as have raged for the last few years round this great historical figure. One party, while exalting her memory, tries to monopolize her and to confine her personality within the limits of Catholic doctrine. A second, by means of tactics which are sometimes brutal, as in the case of Thalamas and Henri Bérenger, sometimes clever and learned, as in the case of M. Anatole France, tries to lessen her prestige and to reduce her mission to the proportions of an ordinary historical episode. Where shall we find the truth as to the part played by Joan in history? As we read it, it is to be found neither in the mystic reveries of the men of faith nor in the material arguments of the positivists critics.
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