Excerpt from The Maid Marvellous: Jeanne Darc Seven sponsors had the Child at her christening, while in big swelling words the priest bade the devils come out Of her, and the exorcisms were longer for a girl than for a boy, the Church mistrusting women. Thus they baptized her, and chose the name of Jehanne, after the loved apostle John and the seer of visions, yet in Lorraine She was always called Jeannette, Jeannette Darc, and sometimes Jeannette Romee, that being the fashion of the countryside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.