History of Joan of Arc

A question that has been put to us many times is whether the Spirits, who respond more or less precisely to the questions that are addressed to them, could carry out a substantial work. The proof of this is in the work of which we spoke, for here it is no longer a matter of a series of questions and answers, but of a complete and continuous narration such as a historian would make, and containing an infinity of details little or not at all known, about the life of the heroine. To those who might think that Miss Dufaux drew upon her personal knowledge, we will answer that she wrote the book at the age of fourteen, and that she had received the instruction that all young women of good family, carefully educated, receive; however, even if she had had a phenomenal memory, it would not be in the classical books that she would go to seek intimate documents, hardly to be found in the archives of the time. We know perfectly well that the unbelievers will always have a thousand objections to make; but, for us, who saw the medium in action, the origin of the book could not raise any doubt. Although the faculty of Miss Dufaux lends itself to the evocation of any Spirit, of which we ourselves had proofs in the personal communications that she transmitted to us, her specialty is History. In the same way, she wrote that of Louis XI and that of Charles VIII, which will be published like that of Joan of Arc. A rather curious phenomenon occurred with her. At first, she was an excellent psychographic medium, writing with great facility; little by little she became a speaking medium and, as this new faculty developed, the first weakened; today, she writes little or with much difficulty, but, what is strange is that, while speaking, she feels the need to have a pencil in hand, pretending to write; a third person is needed to record her words, like those of the Sibyl. Like all the mediums favored by the good Spirits, she received only communications of an elevated order. We will have occasion to return to the history of Joan of Arc to explain the facts of her life, concerning her relations with the invisible world, citing what, in this regard, she dictated of most notable to her interpreter.

(1 vol. in-12, 3 fr. Dentu, Palays-Royal.) [We did not find such an article promised, but there is more information about the martyr in: “Joan of Arc and her commentators.”]

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[v. Joan of Arc.]