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THE DEDICATION OF THE 
 STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC 
 
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Joan of Arc Statue, New York City. 
 
THE DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC 
 
 IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
 ON THE 6th of DECEMBER, 1915 
 
 By 
 
 GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
 
 President of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee 
 
 The American Scenic & Historic Preservation Society 
 
 Etc. 
 
 Reprinted with Extra Illustrations 
 
 From the Twenty-First Annual Report of 
 
 The American Scenic & Historic Preservation Society 
 
 NEW YORK. N. Y. 
 1916 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Chapter I. 
 
 Page 
 
 Preliminaries 7 
 
 The Committee and its personnel, 7 — Cooperation and advice, 9 — 
 
 Joan of Arc loan exhibition, 13 — Breaking of the ground. 13. 
 
 Chapter II. 
 
 The Mo>'umext 14 
 
 The equestrian statue, 14 — Notes on the armor by Dr. Bashford 
 Dean, 14 — The pedestal, 19 — Castle stones in the pedestal, 20 — 
 Petrographic description of the castle stones, 23 — Stone from 
 Rheims cathedral, 24 — Other mementoes in the pedestal, 25 — 
 Letters from President Wilson and others, 29. 
 
 Chapter III. 
 
 Dedication of the ^Ionumext 33 
 
 The assemblage, 33 — Address of welcome by Dr. George Frederick 
 Kunz, 34 — Address and invocation by Very Rev. Theophile 
 Wucher, 37 — Presentation address by J. Sanford Saltus, 39 — 
 Unveiling of the statue, 39 — Acceptance by Hon. Cabot Ward, 
 39 — Congratulations by President Wilson and others, 41 — 
 Address by His Excellency Jean J. Jusserand. 42 — Decoration of 
 Mr. Saltus and Miss Hyatt, 45 — Address by Hon. Robert W. de 
 Forest, 45 — Address by Hon. McDougall Hawkes, 46 — Address 
 by Prof. Louis Delamarre, 47 — Address by J. Alden Weir, 49 — 
 Benediction by Mgr. Michael J. Lavelle, LL. D., 49 — Official 
 Delegations 49 — The Fifteen equestrian statues of the maid, 
 51 — Joan of Arc's name, home and family, 52. 
 
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Facing 
 Page 
 
 Joan of Arc ^Monument, Xew York City 3 
 
 Breaking Ground for the Monument, Oct. 21, 1915 8 
 
 Dedication of the Monument, Dec. 6. 1915 10 
 
 His Excellency the French Ambassador, Jean J. Jusserand, speaking at 
 
 the dedication of the monument, Dec. 6, 1915 12 
 
 Joan of Arc's Home in Domremy 14 
 
 Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices. After painting by Bartolini 16 
 
 Joan of Arc Leaving Vaucouleurs. From the painting by J. J. Scherrer. 18 
 Grand Hall of the Palace at Chinon, where Joan of Arc first met Charles 
 
 VII. After the painting by P. Carrier-Belleuse 20 
 
 Ruins at Chinon, where Joan of Arc first met Charles VII 24 
 
 Joan of Arc at the Battle of Orleans. After the painting by P. Carrier- 
 
 Belleuse 28 
 
 Joan of Arc in Prison at Rouen. Bas-relief by Vital-Dubray, at Orleans. 32 
 The Burning of Joan of Arc at Rouen. After the painting by P. Carrier- 
 
 Belleuse 36 
 
 Vestiges of the Chateau de Rouen, France, excavated in 1914. from which 
 
 stones were taken for th^ monument in New York 40 
 
 Remains of Stair-case of Chateau de Rouen, from which stones were 
 
 taken for the monument in New York. Donjon tower in background. 44 
 Stones from the Chateau de Rouien, loaded at Rouen for shipment to New 
 
 York; and Micrograph of the stone 48 
 
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STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC 
 
 DEDICATED IX THE CITY OF XEW YOEK^ DECEMBER 6, 1915 
 
 I 
 
 PRELIMINAKIES 
 
 An equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, the fifteenth equestrian 
 statue of this subject in the world and the second in the United 
 States, was dedicated under the auspices of the Joan of Arc 
 Statue Committee with impressive ceremonies at Riverside Drive 
 and Ninety-third Street, ^N^ew York City, on Monday, December 
 6, 1915, beginning at 2 :30 p. m. The American Scenic and His- 
 toric Preservation Society was requested to act as historian of 
 the occasion. (See plates 6-11.) 
 
 The Committee and Its Personnel 
 
 The dedication of the statue was the fruition of a plan which 
 had its inception in the formation of the Joan of Arc Statue Com- 
 mittee on December 4, 1909, with a view to the erection of a monu- 
 ment to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the 
 Maid of Orleans." The leading spirits in the organization of the 
 Committee were Mr. John Sanford Saltus and George Frederick 
 Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., both of New York City, who became Hon- 
 orary President and President, respectively, of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Saltus was born in Xew Haven, Conn., March 9, 1854, but 
 his present home is in Xew York City where his father was born. 
 He has lived many years abroad, particularly in France, and has 
 been a liberal patron of the fine arts. In 1911, he founded the 
 John Sanford Saltus Prize in the old Paris Salon for the best 
 battle picture. He himself bought the prize picture in 1912 and 
 presented it to the Museum of French Art of I'Institut Frangais 
 aux Etats-Unis, in Xew York City. He contributed liberally to the 
 erection of the statutes of King Edward VII at Cannes and Queen 
 Victoria at Xice, and in 1914 gave a statue of Joan of Arc to the 
 Church of the Port at Xice. The latter statue was made by the late 
 
 * The commonly accepted date of Joan of Are's birth is January 6, 1412. 
 
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 Abbe Galt're, who died soou after, and represents the Maid 
 at the stake. He also gave to the Paris Relief Fund at the time 
 of the last flood, and toward the new road at Nice ; and has given 
 annual medals for fencing. He is a member of the Xice Carnival 
 Committee and the Xice Yacht Club and has given liberally to 
 the carnival. Other evidences of his generosity have been mani- 
 fested in his paying the expenses of art students in Paris, and in 
 contributions to the Red Cross hospitals and charities generally. 
 In 1912 he gave a statue of Shakespeare to Southwark Cathedral 
 in London, England. In 1908 he founded, in the Xational 
 Academy of Design in Xew York City, the John Sanford 
 Saltus Prize for a painting or piece of sculpture by any artist, 
 man or woman, American or foreign ; and he was the most 
 liberal contributor to the erection of the Joan of Arc statue 
 described in these pages. He is an Honorary Member of the Art 
 Students' League, the Fencers' Club, the Amateur Fencers' 
 League and the Salmagundi Club ; a Fellow of the Xational Acad- 
 emy of Design ; a Patron of the American Museum of Natural 
 History ; a Life Member and First Vice President of the Museum 
 of French iVrt of I'Institut Francais aux Etats-Unis, and the 
 Archaelogical Institute of America; member of Council of the 
 American Numismatic Society ; Life Member of the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art; Vice President of the British Numismatic 
 Society; and member of the Gypsy Lore Society of England, as 
 well as other art and learned societies. He has ^vTitten a number 
 of papers on Louis XVII. He has received from France the 
 rosette of Officier de FAcademie and the cross of Chevalier de 
 la Legion d'Honneur. He is the donor of the John Sanford Saltus 
 Foundation for French lectures in America. 
 
 Dr. Kunz, the President of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, 
 upon whom the chief burden of the executive duties fell, was born 
 in New York City, September 29, 1856. He has received the 
 honorary degrees of A. M. from Columbia Univei*sity (1898), 
 Ph. D. from the ITni versify of "Afarbnrg, Germany (1903) and 
 Sc. D. from Knox College (1907.) He is President of the Ameri- 
 can Scenic and Historic Prevervation Society and was President of 
 the New "i'ork Academy of Sciences in 1914-1"). lie is Chevalier 
 de la Legion d' Honneur. 
 
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 Among the contributors to the fund for erecting the monument, 
 besides Mr. Saltus, were: Mons. Susthene Behn, Mile. Louise 
 Behn, ]\Ille. Elizabeth Behn, Mrs. Sanford Bissell, Miss Josephine 
 Buell, Mrs. Eobert James Campbell, Miss Carmen Castro, Rev. 
 Frank S. Child, Hon. William A. Clark, Mr. Theodore E. 
 Conklin, Hon. John D. Crimmins, Miss Emilie del Goto, Miss 
 Dickinson, Miss Juanita Eajardo, Miss Vincente Fernandez, 
 Hon. McDougall Hawkes, Mons. Heitkamp, Mile. Eleanor Heit- 
 kamp, Miss Gloria Maria Hernandez, Madame M. J. Humbert, 
 Mrs. George Kidd, Mr. Edward C. Kohn, Dr. George F. Kunz, 
 Miss Caroline Lester, Mr. Henrv M. Lester, Mile. Madeline 
 Lucchetti, Miss Josephine F. Malone, Mrs. H. L. Xetter, Mile. 
 Gladys Polowetski, Mr. Charles Pryer, ]\Ir. Iv. X. Putnam, ^Ir. 
 Bob Eedpath, Mr. P. J. Reynolds, Mile Marie M. Robique, Miss 
 Lola Rodriguez, ]Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edwin Scott, Dr. Louis 
 Livingston Seaman, Father William J. Stewart, Mr. Joseph F. 
 Stier, Mons. W. L. Tige, Miss Violetta Travieso, Miss Jose Usera, 
 Prof. John V. Van Pelt, John Wanamaker Co., Miss Elizabeth 
 Wood, Boys and Girls of Catholic Sunday School, Girls of the 
 Jeanne d'Arc Home of Xew York, a Friend in Wales, and a 
 Well-wisher in Pittsfield, Mass. The youngest donor was Mile. 
 Gladys Polowetski, a little girl of Paris, daughter of the Russian 
 artist. Especial thanks are due to Mr. and ^Ers. Robert James 
 Campbell of Xew York City and to Madame Lucchetti, her 
 daughter and two sons, of Porto Rico, for contributions and 
 advice. 
 
 Cooperation and Advice. 
 
 Jn the erection of the Joan of Arc statue. Dr. Kunz invited to 
 his assistance a committee consisting of 21 other members, namely: 
 
 Messieurs Gabriel Hanotaux" and Pierre Loti, members of the 
 Institute of France, who were Honorary Vice-Presidents of the 
 Committee ; 
 
 * In 1911, Mons. Hanotaux published a superb work entitled " Jeanne d'Arc," 
 which, so fear as \Ve know, is the latest elaborate work on this subject. It con- 
 tains 446 pages, 9% by 12l^ inches in size, abounding with reproductions of 
 old engravings and containing fac-similes of documents of great historic inter- 
 est. Only 103 copies of a special edition were printed by Hachette et Cie. 
 
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 Mr. Banman L. Belden, then Secretary of the American E'umis- 
 matic Society; 
 
 Senator William A. Clark, art collector and encourager of 
 French art; 
 
 ^Ir. Thomas Cochran, Jr., President of the Liberty ^N'ational 
 Bank; 
 
 Hon. John D. Crimmins, historical collector, formerly Park 
 Commissioner ; 
 
 Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, President of the Young Women's 
 Christian Association of ^ew York; 
 
 Mrs. Vernon M. Davis, wife of Supreme Court Justice Davis, 
 devoted to patriotic and charitable affairs; 
 
 Prof. Louis Delamarre, French scholar, Secretary-General of 
 the Federation de I'Alliance Frangaise aux Etats-Unis et au 
 Canada ; 
 
 Prof. Frederick Dielman, artist, former President of the Fine 
 Arts Federation and the National Academy of Design ; 
 
 Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wife of the inventor, interested in 
 public welfare and charities; 
 
 Edward Hagaman Hall, L. H. D., writer and lecturer on 
 American History and Scenery, Secretary of the American Scenic 
 and Historic Preservation Society; 
 
 Hon. McDougall Hawkes, lawyer, former Commissioner of 
 Docks and Ferries of the City of New York, Bridge and Tunnel 
 Commissioner of the State of New York, President of I'Tustitut 
 Francais aux Etats-Unis, of which the Museum of French Art is 
 the first section; 
 
 Mrs. Charles F. IMcLean, wife of Supreme Court Justice 
 McLean, interested in civic affairs ; 
 
 Mr. Charles Pryer, ex-Treasurer of the American Numismatic 
 Society, honorary citizen of La Rochelle, France ; 
 
 ^fajor Louis Livingston Seaman, ^r. D., traveler, hygienist, 
 President of the British War Relief Association ; 
 
 Mr. Edward R. Smith, sculptor, librarian of the Avery Archi- 
 tectural Library, Columbia University; 
 
 Rev. William J. Stewart, D. D., rector of St Elizabeth's 
 Church, ecclesiastical historian ; 
 
 ]\rr. J. Alden Weir, artist, President of the National Academy 
 of Design ; 
 
Unveiling the Statue of Joan of Arc at New York, December 6, 1915. (Smoke from .Artillery 
 (Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.) 
 
 upper left hand corner.) 
 
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 Mr. T. Tileston Wells, former President of the Alliance Fran- 
 gaise; and 
 
 Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., litterateur, oriental writer, 
 Dean of the School of Journalism, Columbia University. 
 
 The late James W. Alexander, Litt.D., President of the 
 J^ational Academy of Design, was a member of the Committee. 
 
 Dr. Hall was Secretary of the Committee. 
 
 The Committee had the invaluable assistance of the following 
 Foreign Aides: Mons. Louis d'Arc, a collateral descendant of 
 Joan of Arc, Procureur de la Republique, of Villeneuve-sur-Lot ; 
 Hon. William Bardel, United States Consul at Epernay; Mons. 
 Jean de Beaurepaire, archaeologist, of Rouen ; and the Most Rev. 
 Maurice Landrieux, Vicar General and Archpriest of Notre 
 Dame at Rheims." 
 
 In order to assemble the names of the persons chiefly concerned 
 in the erection of the monument, we may anticipate the history 
 of the project by stating here that the Committee was further 
 aided by the following gentlemen : 
 
 Landscape Architect: Mr. Carl F. Pilat, Landscape Architect 
 of the Department of Parks of Xew York City. 
 
 Consultant on Armor: Pashford Dean, Ph.D., Curator of 
 Armor of the ^fetropolitan ^Museum of Art. 
 
 Adviser on Architectural Competition: Mr. Cass Gilbert. 
 
 Jury on Architectural Competition: Messrs. William Adams 
 Delano, Guy Lowell, and John Russell Pope, professional mem- 
 bers, and Mr. J. Sanford Saltus and Dr. George Frederick Kunz, 
 lay members. 
 
 Committee of the Municipal Art Com<misslon on the Whole 
 Design: ^lessrs. Hermon A. MacXeil, William A. Boring and 
 George W. Breck. 
 
 Aides at the Dedication: Messrs Louis Annin Ames, Reginald 
 Pelham Bolton, Hugh Gordon Miller and Howland Wood. 
 
 The Committee selected as sculptor Miss Anna Vaughn Hyatt, 
 a native of Cambridge, Mass., but a resident of E'ew York City. 
 Her early inclinations were toward music as a profession, but 
 under the tuition of Messrs. Henry H. Kitson, Hermon A. Mac- 
 
 * Now the Right Rev. Mgr. Landrieux, Bishop of Dijon, Cote d'Or. 
 
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 Xeil and Giitzon Borgliim, slie found lier true calling in sculpture. 
 Her most important bronzes heretofore liave been those entitled 
 Winter, Tiger Hunting, etc., in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 and a large lion in Dayton, Ohio, She has exhibited in many 
 national expositions and private exhibitions. She had an Honor- 
 able Mention from the Paris Salon in 1910, and now, as one of 
 the rewards of her work on the Joan of Arc statue, wears the 
 gold palms of Offieier de ITnstructioii Publique of France. In the 
 Joan of Arc statue. Miss Hyatt has demonstrated in the plastic 
 art as Rosa Bonheur demonstrated in painting, that a woman can 
 express with fidelity the vigor and action of animal life. Perhaps 
 the fact that her father, Alpheus Hyatt, was for many years Pro- 
 fessor of Natural History at Harvard University accounts for her 
 wonderful love for and understanding of animals. As proof of 
 her unusual power over them, it is related that certain wild ani- 
 mals in the New York Zoological Garden will pose quietly only 
 for her. 
 
 To Prof. John Vredenburgh Van Pelt of New York, architect 
 and landscape architect, was awarded the task of designing and 
 building the pedestal and its setting. Prof. Van Pelt's education 
 in American schools was supplemented by courses in the l^cole 
 des Arts Decoratifs and Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, and his 
 professional laurels include the degree of Architecte Diplome par 
 le Gouvernement Fran(;ais, one first and five first-second medals 
 in 1895, the honor of Laureate of the Societe des Architectes 
 Diplomes for two years, the Prix St. Agnan Boucher, and grand 
 medal of the Societe Centrale. For a number of years he was 
 Assistant Professor and then Professor in charge of the College of 
 Architecture at Cornell University, and is now Associate Director 
 and Critic of Design in the Department of Architecture at Colum- 
 bia University, and Professor and Critic of Design at the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. Notable examples of his landscape work 
 are to 1)0 found in the State Reservation at Watkins Glen and the 
 alumni fields at Cornell University; while many prominent church 
 schools are examples of his purely architectural abilities. 
 
Ills Excellency J. J. Jus.sehand, French Ambassador. 
 Speaking at dedication of Joan of Arc Monument, New York City. 
 
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 Joan of Arc Loan Exhibition 
 
 The names of the aides and consultants in the foregoing list 
 have already given an intimation of the care which the Com- 
 mittee took to secure a monument which in its conception should 
 be worthy of the noble subject and in its execution accurate in 
 details. In furtherance of these ends, the Committee made a 
 careful studv of Joan of Arc in literature and in various forms 
 of art — plastic, pictorial, medallic, architectural, etc., — and 
 from January 6 to February 6, 1913, held a notable loan exhibi- 
 tion in the building of the American Numismatic Society at 
 Broadway and 156th Street, !N'ew York City. This exhibition 
 consisted of 613 pictures, 234 medals, 29 relics, autographs, etc., 
 64 photographs, 20 pictures of statues of Joan of Arc, 71 books 
 and 66 magazine articles, etc. (See page 35.) 
 
 Breaking of the Ground 
 
 The work of erecting the monument of Joan of Arc in ISTew 
 York began with the breaking of ground on the eminence on the 
 oast side of Riverside Drive at the end of West 93d street on 
 Thursday, October 21, 1915, at 4:30 p. m. (See plate 6.) Dr. 
 George Frederick Kunz, President of the Joan of Arc Statue Com- 
 mittee, presided. The order of exercises was as follows: 
 
 Address by Hon. Cabot Ward, President of the Park Commission 
 of the City of j^ew York and Commissioner of Parks for the 
 Boroughs of Manhattan and Pichmond. 
 
 Address by Mons. Maurice Heilman, representing His Excellency 
 J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States. 
 
 Address by Mons. E. Gueyraud, Consul General of France in the 
 City of Xew York. 
 
 Breaking of Ground by Mr. J. Sanford Saltus, Honorary Presi- 
 dent of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee. 
 
 Placing of the Comer-stone by Miss Clara Hunter Hyatt. 
 
 Address by Mr. J. Alden Weir, President of the National 
 Academy of Design. 
 
 Address by Dr. Frederick Dielman, President of the Fine Arts 
 Federation. 
 
 Address by Mr. J. Sanford Saltus, Honorary President of the 
 Joan of Arc Statue Committee. 
 
 Address by Rev. William J. Stewart, Rector of St. Elizabeth's 
 Church. 
 
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 II 
 
 THE MONUMENT 
 
 The Equestrian Statue 
 
 Work progressed rapidly after the breaking of the ground, and 
 by December 6, 1915, the monument was in place and ready for 
 dedication. 
 
 The statue, by Miss Anna Vaughn Hyatt, is of bronze and of 
 heroic size. It represents the Maid in armor, mounted on her 
 steed, standing in her stirrups, holding the reins in her left hand 
 and her sword in her up-raised right hand. The horse was modeled 
 after a Percheron in Paris. Miss Hyatt's niece. Miss Clara 
 Hunter Hyatt, posed in armor; the face, however, is ideal. The 
 composition impresses one with the animation and spirituality of 
 the heroine and the splendid power and action of her mount. 
 Much material for study and comparison had been furnished by 
 the loan exhibition before described, but the data was incomplete, 
 particularly with respect to the armor. 
 
 Notes on the Armor, by Dr. Bashford Dean 
 
 The manner in which a satisfactory result was attained in the 
 modeling of the annor is thus told by Dr. George Frederick 
 Kunz in the introduction to a booklet by Dr. Bashford Dean :* 
 
 As soon as the committee of which I have the honor to be Presi- 
 dent was formed, its first task was to make a study of the existing 
 statues of Joan of Arc. In order to get a proper idea of the 
 type consistent with the age, dress and customs of the time in 
 which she lived, every available book, manuscript, print, photo- 
 graph and other illustration, even including post-cards, was 
 gathered together, and an exhibition of them held at the rooms of 
 the American Numismatic Society on January 6, 1913, the exhibi- 
 tion lasting for one month. This collection was later exhibited 
 for the same period at the Brooklyn Institute of Fine Arts and at 
 the Boston Public Library with much success. 
 
 In this way a great mass of material was secured, and many 
 valuable suggestions obtained. It was discovered in the course of 
 
 * " The Armor, The Portraiture and Statues of Joan of Arc, and a study of 
 the various types of armor usod by artists and sculptors. By Bashford Dean, 
 A.M., I'li.l)., Clujvalicr, Lvgion d'ilonnour, Curator of Armor at tlie Metropoli- 
 tan Museum of Art, New York. New York, April fourtli, MCMXV." 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 15 
 
 the examination of this material that there were radical differences 
 in the armor of the various statues of the Maid and that many 
 of them did not have much historic value. The attention of the 
 committee was, therefore, turned to Dr. Bashford Dean, Curator 
 of Armor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, w^ho had made 
 many studies along these lines. Special researches were made in 
 all the literature that could be found on the subject, and photo- 
 graphs and illustrations were presented to the committee for their 
 observation. From these authenticated data. Dr. Bashford Dean 
 made valuable contributions to the studies of the sculptor. Miss 
 Anna Vaughn Hyatt, with whom he co-operated, and it is the 
 belief of the committee who have the honor to erect the statue that 
 it will be the first one ever created in w^hich the armor worn by 
 Joan of Arc is true to the period and therefore authentic, thus 
 adding greatly to the interest and value of the figure. 
 
 The following letters from Dr. Dean to Dr. Kiuiz, which follow 
 the introduction of the booklet, are self-explanatory : 
 
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 New York. 
 
 April 4, 1915. 
 Dear Dr. Kunz : 
 
 Here is a little note about the armor of Joan of Arc which you 
 may use for publication. It should have been sent you long since. 
 
 I had a look at the statue the other day. It is certainly well 
 done. I ventured to suggest some details and Miss Hyatt has been 
 altogether too gracious in allowing the dry bones of archaeology 
 to appear in her work ! One suggestion I made which I hope will 
 go thro' — It is that the borders of certain of the plates in the 
 armor he gilded. It will give the whole affair distinction and 
 allure. 
 
 I am much pleased with the set of the armor which Miss Hyatt 
 has put on her figure. It is the first accurate representation of 
 early XV century armor a sculptor has given. 
 
 Ever yours, 
 
 Bashford Dean. 
 
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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 
 'New York. 
 
 New York, IST. Y. 
 April 7, 1915. 
 Dr. George F. Kunz, 
 
 'Xew York City. 
 
 Dear Dr. Kunz: 
 
 I am so giad you like the notes I sent you about the ^' Armor 
 of Joan of Arc.'' 
 
 Please count on me if there is anything I can do for you, and 
 believe me, 
 
 Ever faithfully yours, 
 
 Bashford Dean. 
 
 Following are Dr. Dean's notes, referred to in the foregoing 
 and included in the pamphlet : 
 
 As the national heroine of France, Joan of Arc is one of the 
 most frequently pictured personages in history; there are "por- 
 traits " of her by the hundred, some of them centuries old. But 
 all of them are faulty, not only in likeness — for there exists no 
 authentic portrait — but in costume, arms and armor. 
 
 In general, the cause of this inaccuracy is to be found, not in 
 the lack of data, which can be had in almost every great city at 
 the cost of a few days' study, but in the workings of the artistic 
 mind. The painter, for example, admits smilingly that he is 
 not interested in archaeology ; he wishes to " produce," and his 
 eyes are so filled with the image of his work that he is rarely 
 patient enough to carry out the research which an historical por- 
 trait requires — especially where it concerns a period when his- 
 torical '' documents " Avere uncommon. It is not rcnuirkable, 
 therefore, that his results often give a misleading impression of 
 the personage and of the time. 
 
 And in this respect the sculptor is equally blameworthy. Even 
 in France, where one sees on every side reliefs and statues of the 
 Pucelle, there is no work that is reasonably accurate. She is 
 usually pictured in the style of armor worn from twenty to a 
 hundred years after the time of her death. 
 
 Let us cite concrete instances: 
 
 The statue of Joan of Arc in Paris, which stands on the Boule- 
 vard Malesherbes in front of the Church of St. Augustin, is by 
 
Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices. 
 After the painting by Bartolini. 
 
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 Paul Dubois, membre de Tlnstitut, and from its technical merits 
 it has justly passed a jury of sculptors. It has, as everyone notes, 
 an archaic ^' set and swing'' which interests and attracts. But as 
 to picturing the Maid accurately — that is another story. If the 
 critic has any knowledge of armor he will see at a glance that 
 the model wore not a real harness but a theatrical one. Her 
 armor, too, fits her miserably — about as a stage armor fits the 
 average Shakesperian actor. One is not surprised, therefore, if 
 he discovers, as I did, the actual sheet-iron harness used by Dubois' 
 model lying about disjointed in a comer of a shop in the Rue 
 Le Peletier. Its lines are ungainly, it would fit no one, and in 
 actual use would speedily have exhausted the person who wore 
 it. The veritable armor of Joan of Arc, on the other hand, would 
 have fitted her closely and easily, and would seem to have in it the 
 living body of the wearer, for, it will be recalled, that here was 
 the period of '' gothic armor " which excelled in the beauty of its 
 lines, in its flexibility and its splendid strength. In fact, eveii 
 a detached fragment of a suit of fifteenth century armor, no matter 
 in what position it is placed, seems to have within it something 
 living, like a bit of a Greek statue of the time of Pericles. But 
 to return to Dubois' statue. From the standpoint of its armor, the 
 shoulders and arms are impossibly stiff. In shape, the right 
 shoulder is inaccurate — the arrangement of buckles and straps 
 incorrect — the shell of the elbow of the right ami is placed 
 wrongly. The foot armoring is blunt-toed in the style of about 
 1500. The saddle is mongrel, partly gothic and partly mid-six- 
 teenth century. The sword in the figure's hand is in the stvle of 
 1500. 
 
 The statue of Joan of Arc at Vaucouleurs is sadly inaccurate 
 in its armor ; it is a mixture of pieces dating from the late fifteenth 
 and middle sixteenth century, and even these are fanciful — the 
 less said about them the better. 
 
 The equestrian figure at Chinon is more carefully prepared. 
 It represents her in armor of about 1450, but with a very early 
 head-piece — a pig-face bassinet dating about 1400. Altogether 
 the armor, though later, fits the wearer and the sculptor has 
 apparently taken an interest in it — it is less '^ tinny " than in 
 other examples. 
 
 The Desvergnes statue represents part of the famous gothic 
 armor now preserved in the ^Iiisee d'Artillerie in Paris. This 
 dates in part from 1450. Unfortunately, however, it is a " com- 
 position " ; its tassets are '^ made up " as anyone knows who has 
 examined the armor. The lower leg armor now mounted with this 
 harness is '^ wrong," and is not shown in early pictures of this 
 suit. It may be remarked that while the sculptor has taken this 
 
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 guit as his model, he has tried to improve upon it in several details ; 
 thus he has succeeded in representing the borders of the armor as 
 though they dated from the middle of the sixteenth century. 
 
 Foyatier's statue in the Place du Martroi, at Orleans, is so 
 poorly done as far as its armor is concerned that it deserves a 
 place with the statue of Joan of Arc at Vaucouleurs. 
 
 Still another suit, that of Lebel, in the garden of Orleans, does 
 not inspire gentle criticism. It is enough to say that its armor is 
 in the style of 1450 to 1480 and is badly rendered. 
 
 Fremiet's statue of the triumphant Joan of Arc is perhaps the 
 most famous portrayal of the heroine. From an historical point 
 of view, however, it is poor. Its armor is evidently modeled from 
 theatrical '' effects." The horse's head-piece is of the style of 
 1560 wdth certain modifications above the orbits. The breast- 
 plate and the hip guards are nineteenth century in their form and 
 they appear as though made of some flexible material which 
 moulded itself constantly to the changing contours of the wearer's 
 body. Whatever be the armor, it is not gotliic. The more to be 
 deplored since it is in such a suit that the Maid of Orleans is 
 usually pictured. 
 
 Enough at least has been said to show that there is a legitimate 
 need for a statue of Joan of Arc which shall show her in the 
 panoply of her time. This at least we can expect, for we cannot 
 hope to picture accurately her figure or her face. We cannot even 
 hope to represent her actual armor, for documentary passages 
 dealing with this matter are vague. But we have definite grounds 
 for deciding as to the kind of harness she wore. We have reason 
 to premise that, as commander of the armies of France, she Avould 
 have been clad in armor of the best workmanship. And we con- 
 clude, therefore, if we wish to portray her, that we should search 
 for materials which illustrate the military equipment of the year 
 1431 (the year of her death), or as near this date as possible. 
 
 In this quest we should examine tombal effigies, church brasses 
 and illuminated miniatures, especially those of French origin. It 
 is in the last regard only that difficulty would be encountered, for 
 in France during this particular period of the Hundred Years' 
 War, little artistic work was created or preserved. France, one 
 must recall, was then harried much as Belgium is to-day. So it 
 is not surprising that no contemporary artist has loft Iveliind a 
 visible picture of Joan of Arc. 'Jliere exist elsewhere, however, 
 excellent brasses of this very period, which show military costume. 
 We may mention those of Peter Halle (1420), Walter Grene 
 (1423),' John WanteU^ (1424), John Drayton (1425), Sir Thomas 
 Brounfclt (1430), John Leventhrop (1433), Roger Ehnbrvgge 
 (1435), Tiichard Dyxton (1438). And it is from such figures 
 
Joan of Arc Leaving Vaucoulkurs. 
 From the painting by J. J. Scherrer. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 19 
 
 as tliese making a composite picture, as it were, that we may 
 reconstruct the equipment of the '' Maid of Orleans." These 
 brasses, it is true, are in all cases English, but one need only recall 
 that armor here pictured w^as probably used by their English 
 owners in war in France, where, face to face, year long, the French 
 and English struggled backward and forward over the fields of 
 Picardy, Brittany, j^ormandy, Morbihan and Garonne, so that in 
 the end their costumes tended to become closely similar. We need 
 only consider, too, that armor, as prize of war, passed from one 
 opposing camp to the other — sometimes, doubtless, with surpris- 
 ing rapidity. Since it was the most valuable possession of the 
 soldiers of the day, we may be sure that the wearer had less 
 thought of its nationality than of its quality. 
 
 A careful review, with sketches of contemporary sculptures, 
 pictures and tomb effigies has been undertaken by my assistant, 
 Stephen Grancsay, at the instance of President Kunz. And he 
 has now placed in the hands of the Society's sculptor a series of 
 details which may help to make the present statue of the Maid of 
 Orleans reasonably accurate in its armor and arms. 
 
 The Pedestal 
 
 The pedestal of the statue, designed by Prof. John V. Van 
 Pelt, is I3V2 feet high, 13i/> feet long and 8% feet wide at the 
 base. It is gothic in desigii, having three closed pointed arches 
 on each side and one on each end. At the top of the buttresses at 
 the four comers are small shields bearing the coats-of-arms of 
 Rouen (on the northeast comer), Rheims (southeast), Lorraine 
 (northwest), and Orleans (southwest). In the panel of the arch 
 on the western end is the coat-of-arms granted to the family of 
 the heroine after her death, and under it is the following 
 inscription : 
 
 JOAN OF ARC 
 
 Born at 
 
 Domremy, France 
 
 January 6, 1412 
 
 Burned at the 
 
 Stake at 
 Rouen, France 
 May 30, 1431 
 
 On the base below the panel are the following words : 
 
 Erected by 
 
 The Joan of Arc Statue Committee 
 
 in the City of New York, 1915. 
 
20 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 The pedestal is built partly of ^lohegan granite from quarries 
 near Peekskill, X. Y., and partly of stone from tlie castle in Eoiien 
 in which the Maid was imprisoned. It also contains a piece of 
 stone from the Cathedral of Rheims in which the French King was 
 crowned through Joan's efforts. These historic stones are 
 described more fully hereafter. 
 
 The whole composition, — the statue resting on the castle and 
 cathedral stones — symbolizes the triumph of faith and patriotism 
 over persecution and suffering. 
 
 The Castle Stones in the Pedestal 
 
 In view of the unique distinction among monuments of the 
 United States given to the Joan of Arc memorial by the castle 
 stones in the pedestal, it will not be amiss to give a particular 
 description of those souvenirs and the manner in which they were 
 obtained. 
 
 In the early part of the year 1912, while the sculptress was 
 working on her model of the statue, Dr. Kunz, President of the 
 Committee, desiring, to embody in the monument something 
 directly and personally connected with the life of Joan of Arc, 
 entered into correspondence with Mons. Jean de Beaurepaire of 
 Rouen, son of George de Beaurepaire, the advocate, concerning the 
 castle in which the martyr maid had been confined. 
 
 It may be recalled that when, in 1430, Joan of x\rc was cap- 
 tured by John of Luxembourg, she was sold by him to the English 
 for ten thousand pieces of gold. The English took her to Rouen, 
 which was in their possession, and thei^e imprisoned her in the 
 Chateau do Bouvreuil, also called the Chateau de Rouen. From 
 this castle she was led to the stake in 1431. The place of her 
 execution was in the Vieux Marche, in the heart of the town 
 al>out three-eighths of a mile southwest of the castle. 
 
 The Chateau de Rouen was a fortress built under Philippe 
 Auguste about the year 1205, in what is now the northwestern 
 part of the city. From an elevation by Jacques Lelieur drawn 
 in 1525 and from a plan drawn in 1G35, it appears to have con- 
 sisted of six or more towers, connected by buildings and curtain 
 walls, and surrounded by a moat. The plan was roughly elliptical 
 in shape, its major axis extending in a northwestei^ly and south- 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 21 
 
 easterly direction, and embraced an area of several acres. 
 The sally-port, flanked by two towers and approached by the draw- 
 bridge, was on the south side. Directly across the chateau enclos- 
 ure on the north side was the keep, designated on Lelieur's draw- 
 ing as " La grosse tour du chasteau " and '^ Tour Jeanne Dare" 
 and on the plan of 1635 as the '^ Donjon." The tower at the 
 northwestern end of the ellipse is designated on both drawings as 
 ^' Tour de la Pucelle." It is not know^n, however, in which par- 
 ticular tower of the chateau Joan of Arc was confined. On May 
 9, 1431, she was summoned from her prison tower, — whichever 
 one it may have been — to the great donjon tower (the ''Grosse 
 Tour du Chateau de Kouen "), because there was not room enough 
 in her own quarters for the instruments of torture with which her 
 inquisitors tried to frighten her. At a period not known to the 
 present writer, but prior to the siege of the city in 1415 by Henry 
 V of England, " the city was encircled by a wall. This wall passed 
 around the north side of the chateau and very close to it, as indi- 
 cated by the proximity of the boulevard Jeanne d'Arc to the don- 
 jon tower now standing; for the boulevard is the site of the old 
 city wall. In IGIO, much of the chateau was demolished to make 
 room for a practice ground for the arquebusiers of the town; 
 but the donjon, as well as the Tour de la Pucelle to the westward, 
 and an unnamed tower to the eastward, with their connecting 
 walls and moat, are indicated on the plan of 1635 as then extant 
 and remained for a long time thereafter. In 1809, considerable 
 portions of the chateau then standing were demolished. The keep, 
 or donjon, however, was spared and may now be seen on the north 
 side of the rue du Donjon and east of the rue Jeanne d'Arc, near 
 their intersection with each other and with the boulevard Jeanne 
 d'Arc. It is sometimes called the Tour de la Pucelle, although 
 in Lelieur's elevation (1525) and the plan of 1635 these designa- 
 tions are applied to two different towers. The donjon tower is 
 46 meters in circumference, and 30 meters high, and its walls are 
 4.2 meters thick. It was restored in the latter half of the nine- 
 teenth century and contains a small museum of objects relating 
 to the Maid. 
 
 * The English took possession in 1419. 
 
22 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 The acquisition of stones from the donjon tower for the Joan of 
 Arc Monument in New York was out of the question, but the 
 coiTespondenee between Dr. Kunz and Mons. de Beaurepaire 
 developed the fact that there were some vestiges of the chateau 
 on property near by, at the intersection of the rue du Donjon 
 and the rue Jeanne d'Arc, which embraced part of the north- 
 western quarter of the fortress site. This tract of land was just 
 north of and adjacent to the site of the Tour de la Pucelle as indi- 
 cated on the plan of 1635. The owners of this property had held 
 it many years in the hope that it might be purchased on behalf 
 of the local church and become a shrine of Joan of Arc. When 
 the prospects of this faded, they sold it to a French insurance com- 
 pany called the Mutualite Generale, which, in 1914, began digging 
 for the foundations of a new building. These excavations brought 
 more clearly to light the ancient remains, which extended down 
 as far as six metres below the street level. These remains included 
 a massive stone wall, believed to have been the counterscarp, or 
 outer wall of the moat, and in the wall and connecting masonry a 
 circular turret w^ith winding staircase of stone. This turret was 
 coincident with a larger circle of masonry, suggesting that it was 
 the staircase turret of a large tower. The interior diameter of 
 the staircase was 2.6 metres or about 81/2 feet. At the foot of 
 the staircase, on the western side of the turret, was a doonvay 
 1.03 metres wide and twice as high, with a flat lintel. Mons. de 
 Beaurepaire is of the opinion that the staircase led to the moat. 
 It was manifestly an integral part of the fortress as a whole. 
 (See illustrations.) 
 
 Through the kind assistance of Mons. de Beaurepaire, the Joan 
 of Arc Statue Committee purchased from the owners 229 blocks 
 of stone from this turret. These relics, weighing about 18 tons, 
 were shipped from Eouen to Havre on Thursday, June 11, 1914. 
 From Havre they were sent on the steamship Floride to New York 
 where they arrived June 30. The}^ cost the Committee 558 francs 
 and YO centimes. The Committee has an accurate sui-A'cy of the 
 excavation, made by Mons. Antoine Auverny, architect of Rouen, 
 and numerous photographs showing various stages of the work. 
 
 When the pedestal of the statue was erected at Riverside Drive 
 and 93rd Street in November, 1915, most of these stones were 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 23 
 
 bnilt into it, and appear in the panels of the gothic arches on the 
 north and south sides and the east end. As they came from 
 Eouen thej varied in size, some being three feet long by one foot 
 T\'ide and thick, while others are shorter and thicker. Their outer 
 surfaces were smoothed by the exposure of five centuries to the 
 erosion of time. Most of them were recut for the pedestal, but 
 the faces of the stones in the eastern end of the pedestal have 
 been left as they came from Rouen. 
 
 Petro graphic Description of Cliateau Stones 
 
 The stones from the Chateau de Rouen are mostly of a creamy 
 white color but somie have a very light brownish tinge, as may be 
 noted in the panels on the south side of the pedestal. A hand 
 specimen of one of the white stones was submitted to Dr. Charles 
 P. Berkey, petrographer, of Cohmibia University, who has fur- 
 nished us with some very interesting notes upon the nature of 
 the rock, its fossil content, and the geologic fonnation or horizon 
 from which it was originally taken. (See illustration.) 
 
 The rock is a somewhat chalky-looking and very porous lime- 
 stone, and carries flint or ehert nodules. A miscroscopic study 
 of the specimen for classification shows its texture to be very fine- 
 grained ; its original structure chiefly organic, with foraminiferal 
 remains, and its secondary structure cemented with many 
 rhombohedral cavities. Its primary or essential minerals are 
 chiefly calcium carbonate matters, very minute organisms; and its 
 secondary or alteration products are somewhat reorganized, inter- 
 stitial carbonate. 
 
 Dr. Berkey says : 
 
 '' The essential features of this rock are : 
 
 ^' a. A great predominance of foraminiferal organic remains, 
 some of which are very w^ell preserved, and represent minute 
 globular fonns chiefly. There are occasional elongated fragments 
 of decidedly different habit, and somewhat larger size, and still 
 more rarely a fragment very much larger. All are organic in 
 origin, but in some cases too obscure to identify. 
 
 '' b. All of these fragmental and organic matters are now 
 imbedded in a fine micro-crystalline matrix of the same composi- 
 tion, doubtless representing in part the finely ground-up matter 
 
24 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 from the destruction of the organic remains of the same kind, 
 and perhaps partly representing dissolved and precipitated 
 carbonate. 
 
 ^^ c. There are many comparatively large and very regular 
 pores evidently left by the removal of some constituent that had 
 crystal form. This form was certainly rhombohedral in habit, and 
 in the specimen examined has been entirely removed. There is, 
 therefore, no evidence of its composition except the form, which 
 would suggest some type of carbonate. 
 
 " Large fossils are rare — only one fairly good specimen being- 
 secured, a pelecipod that is identified here as belonging to the 
 genus Lucina. Minute fossils are, however, so abundant as to 
 make up almost the whole rock. As far as they have been found 
 to be determinable they all belong to the foraminifera. The genera 
 identified include: Globigerina (the most abundant), Textularia, 
 Nodosaria, and Rotalia. The species have not been determined. 
 All of these Foraminifera have a w^ide range, making it difticult 
 to determine the horizon accurately. The whole combination, 
 however, is regarded as indicating either the Uppermost Creta- 
 ceous or the Lowermost Tertiary, the Eocene, with a slight prefer- 
 ence for the latter. 
 
 '' An inspection of geologic maps of the region about Eouen 
 shows that the chief bed rock formation of the district is Upper 
 Cretaceous, but that there are numerous patches of Eocene beds 
 left as remnants of erosion or outliers here and there along the 
 divides. One or two of these are in the vicinity of Rouen. For 
 such use as the making of walls for a dungeon I think it very 
 unlikely that any other than a local stone would have been used. 
 I think it probable also that these remnants or outliers might offer 
 opportunity for quarrying fully as well as the Cretaceous strata. 
 Therefore, our judgment is that the rock is probably Eocene as to 
 horizon and that it probably came from the immediate vicinity of 
 Rouen itself. In this I have been aided materially by !^[rs. Ruth 
 Raeder Mook of Columbia University." 
 
 Stone from the Cathedral of Rhcims 
 
 The pedestal also contains a stone from the Cathedral of Rheims 
 in which Charles VII was crowned through the efforts of Joan of 
 Arc. It is a cylindrical section of a fossiliferous stone, about 5^/L> 
 inches in diameter and 14 inches long, with irregiilar broken 
 ends — a fragment of a pilaster demolished by bombardment in 
 September, 1015. As it arrived after the dedication of the monu- 
 ment, it was not set in the pedestal until Saturday, July 29, 1916, 
 
Ruins at Chinon Where Joan Met Charles VII. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 25 
 
 when it was placed in the east side of the base in the axis of the 
 monument. The Cathedral authorities are particular that it shall 
 be known that this is a plain stone (une simple pierre) and not a 
 piece of sculpture, as appears from the following letters from the 
 Most Keverend Maurice Landrieux, Vicar-General Archpriest of 
 Notre Dame : 
 
 (Translation) 
 
 Eheims, October 18, 1915. 
 
 To the President of the Committee of 
 
 Erection of the Statue of Joan of Arc at New York. 
 
 Mr. President: 
 
 It is a beautiful idea, a very delicate thought, to insert in the 
 pedestal of the monument which you erect to Joan of Arc, those 
 four stones which recall the great stopping-places of her life — 
 Domremy, Orleans, Rheims and Rouen ! 
 
 Therefore, notwithstanding our purpose to gather with care the 
 smallest artistic fragments of our poor devastated cathedral in 
 order that none may be lost, it is very agreeable to me to be able 
 to send to you, by the agency of the American consulate, after 
 having been authorized to do so, the entirely plain stone which 
 you desire, a fragment of a little pillar broken very recently by a 
 new bombardment. 
 
 Please accept, Mr. President, my very respectful sentiments. 
 
 McE. Landrieux 
 
 V. g. Archipr. de N. D. 
 
 If the newspapers niention this shipment, I would be grateful 
 to you to see that the expression '' a plain stone " is always used, 
 in order to protect us from the exaggerations of the press, which 
 will soon speak of a ^' piece of sculpture " and provoke unpleasant 
 protests. 
 
 Other Mementoes in the Pedestal 
 
 On December 1, 1915, a heavy copper box, hermetically sealed 
 and containing the mementoes mentioned hereafter, was placed 
 in the midst of the masonry of the pedestal, and on the following 
 day, the cap stone of the pedestal having been laid, the statue was 
 hoisted and put in place. The copper box, measuring 6 by 8% 
 by 12 inches in size, contained the following objects: 
 
26 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 A3CEBICA3r Coi3fS AJSIt MeI*AL» 
 
 Five dolbr gold piece of 1915. 
 
 Silver doil&T of irXj2.* 
 
 Silrer haM dollar of 1915. 
 
 SHrer quarter dollar of 1915. 
 
 Sih-er dime of 1915. 
 
 Xidkel fiTe-eent piece of 19:! 5. 
 
 Copper eent of 1915. 
 
 EroiLze medal commemorating me dedication of Grant's toml.. 
 1S97. 
 
 Citizen^s Ccsnmittee badge (IjTonjze) of the Hudaon-Fnlton 
 C^dH^tio^i, 1909. 
 
 Bronze medal of tiie Xew York Cooimerejal Tercentenarjr 
 ' Tn, 1914, 
 
 r>l^'<;ie m mernorr of J. P. 3foreaii- who died in 191:^ 
 
 SilT€T 2 frames, 1915. 
 Siker I'franc, 191.5. 
 Sih-er 5CN£a[ktimcs, 1S>15, 
 
 Xieicel^^- ''14, 
 
 Xiekei IC- -14. 
 
 3rkkel5-r> 1914, 
 
 CV/pper ir ^, 191^;. 
 
 Copper 5- 1914^. 
 
 Ojipp*^ 2-' : 5, 
 
 Clipper 1-C;,. -:.- . - -5. 
 
 Hue Hirer ^/m» were des^xiBBed l/jr liotf . Tfa»e niekd ew»i w«re 
 c€ ^u$ Be«r de$igB b?^ IjxiAxaer^ §ts^ wimA m 1914^ wiKb a bo^ 
 im dbe eemter. Tbe t/^p^f^^ aoraA ThaiM Ihipok. 
 
 J<»B oif An^ ixuevial W Ikmassc ^rtM m 1^§? and part of 
 
 Jr-' '-' '- - ^... ... ....... .^^ ijr^ Iryj-i^^^ ^yf Xapole^^ 
 
 a.at P ^i^J^ of Joaw of Are at 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 27 
 
 Silver medal given by Congress to Wasliington on evacuation of 
 Boston. March 17, 1776, bv IhiVivier. 
 
 The Franco- American Union silver medal on the erwiion of tlie 
 Statute of Liberty by Bartholdi in Xew York HarK^r. 
 
 The silver medal designed by Bocte, sirnck by the French 
 Government in sympathy for the sutferers of the San Franciscv* 
 earthquake of liH^6. 
 
 The foregoing coins and medals were pr^'sented by the French 
 Government. 
 
 PRi:jfTEB BocrMEXTs 
 
 Twentieth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic 
 Preservation Society for the year 19 15. 
 
 List of the equestrian statues of the world, from the Eighteenth 
 Annu;il Ke^x^rt of the American Sc«iic and Historic Preservation 
 Svxnety for the year 1913, 
 
 CataU^ue of the Joan of Arc Loan Exhibition held in the 
 building of the American Xumism.^tic Society, Xew York City, 
 from January i> to Febru,irv i\ 19 lo, coiitaining .i^lso the pro- 
 coevling^ at the opening of the exhiHtion. 
 
 Statuts et Koglements du Jeanne d'Arc Home, lS9o. 
 
 Pullet in of the New York Academy of Sciences and A:3iliated 
 SiXMOties for the week of XovemK^r ^:?, 19 lo. 
 
 Notico of the Mus»cum of French Art^s Third (>fficial Confei^ 
 ence of the season, November 16, 1915, 
 
 Invitation to the dedicatioii of the Joan of Arc statue, printed 
 in blue, 
 
 Twivjv^^ prv>gram of the exen'ise^ at thf» dedicatioti, printed 
 in black. 
 
 Four-pago pn^gram of the exercis»es at the dedication printed in 
 blue, 
 
 Th'r>r^ >^* c-.^>' .^*" *' ""^nuation aK>ut the devlication for the 
 
 pn\ss. 
 
 xMSvKirT DoOrMKNTS 
 
 IxMtor tror.. \\ x\\;row Wils^Mi. *^ -^ * ^ " ^ '^ - 
 
 to l>r, Gt\>r^^ F. Kuni^ dattxi \V - ^ ^ 
 
 Loiter frv><u Oharlt-^ S, Whitmjin, iiovenK>T of the State of New 
 York, to Dr. Gtvrge F, Kuni, da: ' \ ' ^' ' * ' '' 
 
 Lotter fn>m Mi>st Kovennid M. 
 lV:oVr IS, I9ir>, to the Prt^sidont ot tiie J<.\i.u i\f Arc Statue 
 iVmmittee. (See page 507 prt\x\Htig,> 
 
 Ijotter frvMu Ji>im Oatxiinal F,^rlev to l>r. Kunx, dated 
 Xew York, N ^ ^ 15, 
 
 StHitiment Keverend David H. Greer, D, D., 
 
 Pisho|> of Now \\>rk, dauxi November i?7, 1915, 
 
28 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 Letter from L. d'Arc, Procureur de la Eepublique, to Dr. Kimz, 
 dated Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Xovember 1, 1915, enclosing print of 
 Jeanne d'Arc as Patron of the hospitals of the Red Cross in 
 France. 
 
 Letter from L. d'Arc to Dr. Kiinz, dated at Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 
 November 8, 1915. 
 
 Sentiment from Marcus M. Marks, President of the Borough 
 of Manhattan, dated ]^ovember 29, 1915. 
 
 Letter from E. H. Anderson, Director of the Xew York Public 
 Library, to Dr. Kunz, dated November 29, 1915, enclosing a 
 printed reading list of books about Joan of Arc. 
 
 Sentiment from J. Sanford Saltus, Honorary President of the 
 Joan of Arc Committee, dated November 30, 1915. 
 
 Sentiment from Dr. George Frederick Kunz, dated December 1, 
 1915. 
 
 Copy of address by Dr. George Frederick Kunz, to be delivered 
 at the unveiling on December 6, 1915. 
 
 Letter from Sister M. Clothilde of the Jeanne d'Arc Home, to 
 Dr. Kunz, dated November 23, 1915. 
 
 Names of the Officers, Directors and Ladies of the Jeanne d'Arc 
 Home. 
 
 Fairy Stone 
 
 And lastly was i)ut in a specimen of staurolite, a peculiar form 
 of mineral whose name (from the Greek ^'stauros" meaning 
 cross), is due to the forming of two crystals at right angles. This 
 specimen came from Patrick County, Va., where there is a beauti- 
 ful legend concerning their origin. Dr. George Frederick Kunz, 
 in his book entitled '' The Curious Lore of Precious Stones," says 
 of these crystals: 
 
 '' Near where they are found there wells up a spring of limpid 
 water and the story goes that one day, long, long ago, when the 
 fairies were dancing and playing around this spring, an elfin 
 messenger winged his way through the air and alighted among 
 them, lie bore to them the sad tidings of the crucifixion of Christ 
 in a far-oft' city. So mournful was his recital of the sufferings of 
 the Saviour that the fairies burst into tears, and these fairy tear- 
 drops, as they fell to earth, crystallized into the form of the cross. 
 These natural crosses are in great demand as charms, and 
 ex-President Poosevelt is said to wear one of them mounted as 
 watch charm." 
 
 This '' fairy stone " was put in the bOx as a symbol of the tears 
 shed for Joan of Arc. 
 

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Joan of Arc Statue 29 
 
 Following are the texts of some of the manuscripts placed in 
 the copper box in the pedestal : 
 
 Letter from Woodrow Wilson^ President of the United States 
 
 The White House 
 Washington 
 
 :N'ovember 12, 1915. 
 My dear Dr. Kunz : 
 
 I hope that on Monday, December the sixth, you will convey 
 to the Joan of Arc Statue Committee my w^armest congratulations 
 upon the successful completion of their work. 
 
 Joan of Arc is one of those ideal historic figures to whom the 
 thought of patriotic people turns back for inspiration. In her 
 seems to have been embodied the pure enthusiasm which makes 
 for all that is heroic and poetic. 
 
 Cordially and sincerely yours, 
 
 Woodrow Wilson. 
 Dr. George F. Kunz, 
 
 Joan of Arc Statue Committee, 
 New York City. 
 
 Letter from Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of 
 
 New York 
 
 State of New Yokk 
 
 Executive Chamber 
 
 Albany 
 
 November 26, 1915. 
 Dr. George F. Kunz, 
 
 President, Joan of Arc Statue Committee, 
 New York City. 
 
 Dear Dr. Kunz : 
 
 I feel greatly honored that your Committee has asked me to 
 write a letter to be placed in the cornerstone of the pedestal of 
 the statue of Joan of Arc, to be dedicated in New York on 
 December Gth. 
 
 It is eminently fitting and proper that this statue should be 
 erected in commemoration of the heroism and loyal patriotism, 
 as well as devotion to her religious faith, of one of the most 
 conspicuous characters in French history. 
 
 The fact that this statue has been erected in a land so far 
 removed from the scenes of her great victories, as well as from the 
 
30 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 scene of her martyrdom, testifies to the love and the admiration 
 which all peoples of all lands entertain for the brave and the 
 good. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Chaeles S. Whitman. 
 
 Letter from the Most Reverend MauHce Landrieux of Blieims 
 
 A translation of the text of the letter from the Most Keverend 
 Maurice Landrieux, Vicar General Archpriest of J^otre Dame 
 Cathedral, at Rheims, is given on page 23 preceding. 
 
 Letter from His Eminence John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of 
 
 New York 
 
 Cardinal's Residence 
 
 452 Madison Avenue 
 
 'New York 
 
 JSTovember 28, 1915. 
 Dear Dr. Kunz : 
 
 I congratulate you and the members of your Committee on the 
 splendid site you have secured for the beautiful statue of the 
 Blessed Joan of Arc, a new oimament of their city, for which the 
 citizens of New York owe yourself and the ladies and gentlemen 
 associated w^ith you a debt of gratitude. 
 
 You perpetuate the memory of a martial heroine, an inspiration 
 alike to the people of every race, not for her conquests, but for 
 her simplicity, her virtuous life, and her unselfishly courageous 
 patriotism. Joan of Arc did not liberate France of herself; she 
 was but an instrument chosen by God for the work. That she 
 deserved to be selected for such a glorious mission is her enduring 
 fame. Her saintly life had prepared her for it. 
 
 May your statue then teach true patriotism ; patriotism founded 
 on a conviction that with Divine assistance we can vindicate a 
 just cause against any odds. May it also teach us that virtue is 
 the greatest glory of womanhood, and must ever be the basis, not 
 only of whatever high and noble accomplishments women may 
 hope to perform for the city or nation, but of whatever prosperity 
 and happiness the nation may hope to enjoy. 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 John Cardinal Farley, 
 
 Abp. of JSI. Y. 
 Dr. George F. Kunz, 
 
 President of the Joan of Arc 
 Statue Committee. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 31 
 
 Sentiment from Bt. Rev. David II. Greer, D. D., Bishop of 
 
 New York 
 
 Diocese of JSTew York 
 
 Synod House 
 
 ]Sr. E. Cor. Amsterdam Avenue and llOtli Street 
 
 iS^ovember 27, 1915. 
 
 Joan of Arc is a notable 
 example of the supremacy 
 of the spirit in control- 
 ling physical forces. 
 
 David H. Greer, 
 Bishop of [N'ew York. 
 
 Letters from Louis d'Arc, Procureur de la Bepuhlique, of 
 
 Villeneuve-sur-Lotj to Dr. Kunz 
 
 (Translation) 
 
 Villeneuve-sur-Lot 
 
 Xovember 1, 1915. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I have received your telegram and your kind invitation to be 
 present at the inauguration of your statue of Jeanne d'x\rc, and 
 represent there the family of the heroine. You may well believe 
 that I would have been happy to accept your generous offer and to 
 make your acquaintance under such conditions. I am deeply 
 touched by your courtesy toward me, and under other circum- 
 stances I w^ould gladly have come to you to assist in the impressive 
 ceremonies in honor of my great-aunt, and hence in honor of 
 France. Unfortunately it is absolutely impossible for me to leave 
 France at this moment, because of the war with France. 
 
 I earnestly request that you will lay aside for me all printed 
 matter (programs, speeches, accounts of proceedings) issued on 
 the occasion of your celebration, so that I may be able to include 
 them in my bibliographical work, the printing of which will be 
 completed after the war. I trust that you will kindly gather this 
 material together and send it to me. 
 
 You will soon receive a pamphlet which will shortly be issued, 
 entitled: " Jeanne d'Arc et la guerre de 1914,'' wherein I have 
 been happy to mention your demonstrations in honor of the heroic 
 French woman. 
 
 Kindly express my gratitude for me to your Committee and 
 accept for yourself, my dear sir, the assurances of my profound as 
 well as of my lively sympathy and my most devoted sentiments. 
 
 Louis d'Arc. 
 
32 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 Villeneiive-sur-Lot 
 
 :N'aveml)er 8, 1915. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I have received your last despatch. You are really too kind 
 and your generous invitation deeply touches us. Believe me that 
 at any other time we should all have been proud to he present 
 at your beautiful celebration in honor of our great-aunt. But 
 alas! at this moment all French souls have such grave concerns 
 that they have no other ideas than those concerning the war. My 
 wife and my daughters direct or are nurses in our hospitals, and 
 could not, even for a month, quit their voluntary task, which has 
 become their sole concern. We have many wounded. My mother, 
 who is 84 years old, could not undertake this journey because of 
 her state of health. We all regret that the celebration falls just 
 under such circumstances; although it is true that it will be a 
 manifestation in favor of France the more significant and the 
 more important in view of actual events. My daughters — who 
 are three very pretty girls — beg me to communicate to you their 
 regrets. All our wishes for the most brilliant success of your 
 celebration. Our hearts will beat with yours on the sixth of 
 December. 
 
 With the expression of my gratitude, the assurance of my 
 devoted sentiments. 
 
 L. d'Arc. 
 
 Sentiment froyn Hon. Marcus M. Marks, President of the 
 Borough of Manhattan 
 
 Municipal Building 
 
 Xew York 
 
 11/29/1915. 
 
 For ideals we must look to history. In their own way men and 
 women, later recognized as ideals, are viewed through the colored 
 glass of prejudice, in false perspective. 
 
 Joan of Arc, whose short life of but twenty years early in the 
 fifteenth century furnishes a strong beacon-light of self-sacrificing 
 patriotism, was cruelly misjudged in her day and bnrned at the 
 stake as an heretic and witch. 
 
 The world owes Joan of Arc everlasting gratitude for raising 
 a new standard and ideal of womanhood through lier vision, her 
 courage, her energy, her nobility of purpose, her purity of 
 character. 
 
 Standing on the banks of our most beautiful river, may her 
 figure be an inspiration to our people for noble impulses. 
 

 
Joan of Arc Statue 33 
 
 III 
 
 DEDICATIOX OF THE MOXUMEXT 
 
 The monument was dedicated with impressive exercises on 
 Monday, December 6, 1915, beginning at 2 :30 p. m. 
 
 The invitation cards had at the top a representation of the 
 statue embossed in silver, and underneath it, in a text similar to 
 to that of the period of Joan of Arc, and printed in blue ink, the 
 following : 
 
 The Joan of Arc Statue Committee 
 
 with the cooperation of the Honorable Cabot Ward 
 
 President of the Park Commission of the City of New York 
 
 requests the honor of your presence, with ladies, 
 
 at the unveiling of the 
 
 Statue of Joan of Arc 
 
 on Riverside Drive at Ninety-third Street 
 
 on the afternoon of Monday, the sixth of December 
 
 One thousand, nine hundred and fifteen 
 
 at half after two o'clock 
 
 Please send response to 
 The Joan of Arc Statue Committee 
 Twenty West Thirty-seventh Street 
 City of New York 
 
 The day was partly cloudy. Some fine flakes of snow fell during 
 the morning but none in the afternoon. A brisk northwest wind 
 blew in the forenoon, but it subsided to 12 miles an hour at 2 p. m. 
 The temperature at that time was 35° above zero. The weather, 
 on the whole, was favorable and there was a large attendance of 
 men and women, including prominent officials and leading citizens. 
 
 A stand with seats for two hundred persons, erected in front 
 of the monument and facing it, accommodated the speakers, prin- 
 cipal guests and delegates. About 200 chairs were arranged on 
 the paved terrace around the monument and 500 more on the 
 adjacent ground. These were all filled and hundreds of persons 
 stood. 
 
 The stand was artistically draped with a large American flag 
 and with blue and white bunting, and the rostrum was further 
 embellished with two shields bearing the d'Arc family coat-of- 
 arms, and with a large floral piece in the shape of a fleur-de-lys 
 made of yellow chrysanthemums. The monument itself was deco- 
 rated with a profusion of floral tril)utes. Shortly before the hour 
 2 
 
34 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 of beginning, Battery E of the First Field Artillery of the 
 INTational Guard of JSTew York, under command of Capt. John 
 T. Delaney arrived and took position on the east side of Riverside 
 Drive south of the monument. Picturesqueness was added to the 
 scene by the presence of the Uniformed Knights of Columbus as 
 a Guard of Honor in front of the rostrum, the uniformed band 
 of the Lafayette Guards, and the Color Guard of the latter holding 
 the "flag of the United States, the flag of France, and the flag of 
 the Lafayette Guard in front of the statue. Patriotic airs were 
 played by the band before and after the addresses. The statue 
 was veiled with canvas covers, arranged to be released by the pull- 
 ing of a rope from the rostrum. 
 
 The formal exercises opened with the playing of the American 
 National Anthem, '' The Star Spangled Banner,' by the band, 
 the entire company standing. 
 
 Address of Welcome hy George Frederick Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D. 
 George Frederick Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., President of the Joan 
 of Arc Statue Committee, presided and delivered the following 
 address of welcome: 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 " The Joan of Arc Statue Committee and delegates from 25 
 organizations have assembled here to-day to do honor to a noble 
 woman and a great country. Wc believe that this New York 
 statue, like the great statue in Paris, will become a Mecca for 
 many thousand friends of France and of France's purest hero. 
 Many of those who come will undoubtedly bring floral tributes to 
 place on and around the pedestal, and these tokens of affection w^ill 
 at once grace the beautiful work of art and help to keep green the 
 memory of her whom it portrays. 
 
 " We come here to-day not only to honor Joan of Arc, the ALiid 
 of Orleans, the preserver of France, but to honor Joan of Arc, the 
 heroine of the whole world, a symbol of valor and purity. After 
 500 years, this maid, persecuted, imprisoned and Anally burned 
 at the stake, emerges to-day out of the strifes and calumnies of the 
 past as one of the grandest and purest figures of all time. Where 
 are those who persecuted her, who compelled her to go through her 
 great ordeal, from which her spirit came forth with all the refined 
 purity of gold out of the crucible? For her soul was like a great 
 mass'of gold in its native rock. The rock may be struck by light- 
 ning, the frosts of winter may rend it, avalanches may tear it from 
 its bed, it may be cround in a glacial moraine, or worn by a tor- 
 rent and yet at the end of many thousand years it will yield its 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 35 
 
 treasure of pure gold, unalloyed, unadulterated, pure and beauti- 
 ful as the nugget I hold in my hand. The statue of Joan of Arc 
 and its pedestal rests upon a solid rock. This is a glaciated ridge of 
 the archasan rock which was ground down, planed and smoothed 
 by glacial action, ultimately leading to the formation of the great 
 Hudson River Valley. If minute vibrations and earth tremors 
 can be felt, then this statue should be able to receive vibrations 
 from France, from China, from the uttermost parts of the earth, 
 because the rock which underlies it, the deep-laid foundation of 
 our great city, is one of the oldest ridges in the world. 
 
 " The erection of this monument was not the work of a day, for 
 it was more than six years ago that this Committee was organized 
 for the purpose of erecting a statue of Joan of Arc in the City 
 of New York. It was deemed wise not to proceed without a full 
 knowledge as to what had been done in the realms of art to portray 
 the true character of this wonderful woman and it was determined 
 also to select a sculp; or who would absolutely assure us a statue 
 worthy of so great and revered a personage. 
 
 '^ In furtherance of this purpose to gather information con- 
 cerning the earlier portrayals of the heroine, the Committee 
 thought it advisable to make a study of Joan of Arc in art — 
 pictorial, graphic, medallic, architectural, and other forms — in 
 literature, and in fact in every way in which Joan of Arc has been 
 mentioned or has been known. For this purpose we prepared a 
 collection of pictures, medals, relics, etc., listed and described in 
 in the special Hobby Club edition (limited to 35 copies) of the 
 Joan of Arc Exhibition in Xew York, January 6 to February 8, 
 1913,* as follows: 
 
 Pictures 613 
 
 Relics, autographs, etc 29 
 
 Photographs of Jeanne d'Arc 64 
 
 Statues of Jeanne d'Arc described 20 
 
 Medals 234 
 
 Bibliography: books Yl 
 
 Magazine articles, etc (^6 
 
 " This exhibition and a study of the known statues of the 
 world showed us that the armor which the various sculptors had 
 placed on these statues was in every instance incorrect. These 
 errors have been avoided in the present case, and the acceptance 
 of the statue by the Department of Parks and the endorsement of 
 the Art Commission of the City of New York corroborate its artis- 
 tic merit and accuracy. 
 
 * There were three editions of this book, the regular, the Hobby Club, and 
 
 the Museum of FnRnch Art edition. 8vo. ; pp. 97; plates 40. New York, 1913, 
 
36 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 *^ The statue has been upraised upon a pedestal of peculiar 
 significance. Just as five centuries have cleared away supersti- 
 tion and despotism, and have given us light and freedom, so one 
 of the dark corners of Joan of Arc's prison castle has recently 
 been brought to the light ; and a mass of stone from this castle has 
 been kept intact and with its more than 500 years of age has been 
 placed here to face the rising sun, just as this beautiful statue of 
 Miss Anna Vaughn Hyatt, the gifted sculptress, faces the setting 
 sun. And it is most fitting that to woman's skill should have been 
 entrusted the task of portraying the greatest and noblest woman 
 of France. The pedestal, therefore, possesses for us a profound 
 and touching symbolism, figuring the triumph of her white soul 
 over the dark treachery and oppression which could hold her body 
 captive but could not enchain her indomitable spirit. Thus she 
 surmounts the prison rock to-day with drawn sword, urging on 
 her charger against the enemies of her native land, to free the fair 
 land of France from the invader's grasp. And the memory of her 
 heroic deeds in the past has become a potent animating and 
 encouraging force in the storm and stress of the present dark hour. 
 
 " By permission of the Hon. Cabot Ward of the Department 
 of Parks, and of Mr. Carl Pilat, Landscape Architect of the 
 Department of Parks, this magnificent site has been devoted to this 
 universally beloved personage, and upon it the ground was broken 
 for her statue on Thursday, the 21st of October. To-day we see 
 the fruition of our labors, and to the dedication of the now com- 
 pleted memorial, in behalf of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, 
 I bid you welcome. 
 
 ^' It would be uugratoful if we did not say a w(n-d at this 
 moment about our friends whose assistance has been so important, 
 and at the same time so unselfish. First of all, I must 
 mention our Honorary President Mr. Saltus, who has aided us, not 
 only with his financial support, but with his untiring courage and 
 confidence. We owe many thanks to ^lons. Jeaue de Beaurepaire 
 for his archaeological work and for his very practical assistance in 
 getting for us the prison stone. Nor should we think of forgetting 
 Mons. Louis d'Arc, a descendant of the Arc family, for his advice 
 and encouragement in the great undertaking which is now so hap- 
 pily completed, and for his very kindly expressed appreciation of 
 our efforts. 
 
 '' We also owe thanks to the well-known artists Mr. and Mrs. 
 Frank lulwin Scott of Paris. Mr. Scott, besides being contributor 
 to the fund, spent many days in research in France. Nor 
 do we underestimate the great assistance rendered by that 
 gifted architect, Mr. Cass Gilbert, or that of the Secretary of the 
 
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 Municipal Art Commission, Dr. John Quincy Adams. We were 
 also honored by the assistance and co-operation of Mr. Carl F. 
 Pilat, Landscape Architect of the Department of Parks, whose 
 eminent uncle did so much to lay out the parks of this city ; and 
 the great talent of the artist Mr. Gutzon Borglum, the master in 
 whose studio our eminent sculptress Miss Anna Vaughn Hyatt 
 studied, and who could not be w4th us to-day, but sent her a 
 victor's laurel wreath endorsing the great work she has done. The 
 inspiration of his influence has undoubtedly been a factor of her 
 achievement. 
 
 ^' Then we must not forget Mr. Reginald Pelham Bolton, of the 
 Inscriptions Committee of the American Scenic and Historic 
 Preser^^ation Society, and Mr. Howland Wood, Curator of the 
 American Xumismatic Society, and many others whose help has 
 been given both directly or indirectly and who materially 
 assisted in making this the auspicious occasion it is." 
 
 Address and Invocation by the Very Rev. Theophile Wucher, 
 
 S, P. M. 
 
 The Very Eev. Theophile Wucher, S. P. M., pastor of the 
 French Church of St. Vincent de Paul, delivered in French a dis- 
 course of which the following is a translation : 
 
 " Blessed be God and thanks be to Him who hath manifested in 
 the deeds and achievements of the Maid of Orleans the puissance 
 and power of his arm, who hath realized moreover the words of the 
 great Orator of Nations, ^ God chooseth that which is not to con- 
 found that which is.' 
 
 '' Thou wast not, Jeanne of Domremy, or rather thou wast 
 nothing, little peasant of the Vosges; thou hadst nothing, thou 
 knewest nothing, and behold how thou teachest the men of war 
 in the profession which is theirs. Thou commandest the armies 
 of France and thou inspircst the King himself with his resolu- 
 tions. Thou becomest the terror of the ancient enemy of our dear 
 country and thou puttest him away from her blessed soil. Thou 
 diest, and the ashes of thy beautiful body, burned, are thrown to 
 the four winds of heaven. After five centuries passed away, thou 
 dost rise again from thine ashes, more beautiful, more grand, 
 more glorious than at the coronation of Rheims. The men of the 
 Church who pronounced thy condemnation are condemned in their 
 turn by the Church, the head of which has recently placed thee 
 among the heroic spirits who, by their valor, have forced the doors 
 of the abode of happiness. 
 
 " To-day, generous hearts, in a unanimous sentiment of venera- 
 tion devoted to thy memory and to the people from whom thou 
 art come, have piously converted the stones of thy dark prison 
 
38 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 into a majestic pedestal from which shines thy resplendent figure 
 and from which thou dost contemplate a country new to thee, for 
 it rose above the waves half a century after thy martyrdom, and 
 from which — O indwelling justice of things! — thou dost hear, 
 melodious to thine ears because it chants thy praises, the tongue 
 whose accents thou formerly didst execrate. 
 
 ^' The people who shall henceforth pass at the foot of thine 
 image will salute the three pure loves which have made thee great : 
 
 '' The tender love of the family : In going out from the corona- 
 tion of the King, thy first w^ords were : ^ O, if it were only given 
 to me at this time to return to the side of my mother, my father, 
 and my brothers and sisters whom I love so much.' 
 
 " The heroic love of country: When thou didst learn that thy 
 father w^ould place an obstacle in the way of thy departure, thou 
 didst exclaim in a sublime enthusiasm : ' Eh, if I had a hundred 
 fathers and a hundred mothers, I would leave all to rush to the 
 defence of my country ! ' This love of country, Woman-Soldier, 
 may it fill the noble spirit of the youth of this vast Kepublic. 
 
 '^ The love of God: Thou didst repeat without cessation, both 
 to thy soldiers and to thy judges, that thou hadst no other thought 
 and guidance than to obey the commands of heaven. Christian 
 martyr, give us to hear and to follow the voice of conscience as 
 the supreme will of God. 
 
 ^' And although I ought to remain silent, I cannot. It is asked 
 of us to put aside from this solemnity the horrible spectre of war. 
 Is it possible in the face of Jeanne d'Arc brandishing in the air 
 her flaming sword? I wish to respect always the wdsh of those 
 who have honored me with their invitation; but they permit me, 
 thy little brother Alsatian, to address thee a personal prayer. The 
 entire world has had the joy and the consolation of erecting statues 
 to thee and chanting high thy glory. Alone the happiness has been 
 refused to thy Twin Sister, the affectionate and faithful Alsace. 
 She sings to thee and prays to thee from the bottom of her heart ; 
 but thou, who hast seen visions, she w^ould that thou wouldst 
 become a vision to her. Leave then thy Bois Chenu and come with 
 me. I will serve as thy guide, for thy mounted w^arriors liave 
 never conducted thee toward these regions. Let us go toward 
 Mirecourt, let us descend upon Epinal, let us continue as far as 
 Remiremont, and there let us climb the sides of our dear moun- 
 tains. Behold thee on the highe?^t summit of our Vosges, on our 
 dear Ballon d'Alsace. Stop! There, under the azure blue of 
 heaven, with the white robe of the virgin and thy purple robe of 
 martyrdom, thou wilt appear to Alsace, astonished and quivering 
 with joy, like an immense tri-colored flag, which bears in its 
 vast folds tlie radiance, the consolation, the vivifying IIopo of the 
 Redemption, wished-for, waitrd-for, near at hand, everlasting." 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 39 
 
 Presentation Address hy J. San ford Saltus 
 
 Mr. J. Sanford Saltus, Honorary President of the Joan of 
 
 Are Statue Committee, presented the monument to tlie City of 
 E'ew York in the following words: 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 '^ We are far away in time and place from the Lily Maid of 
 France, whose memory we honor to-day as perhaps the greatest 
 general, certainly the greatest woman the world has ever known. 
 
 '' Far from her native France, from the France she saved, her 
 statue rests on a base of stone brought from her prison at Rouen. 
 If those old stones could speak, what would they tell us ? 
 
 " Five hundred years ago, her cannon spoke at Orleans. Here 
 in a moment cannon w^ill speak as her statue is unveiled. We can 
 say nothing. There's only the cannon for Joan of Arc. 
 
 ^' In the name of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, I herewith 
 present this statue of Joan of Arc to the City of Xew York, 
 through the Hon. Cabot Ward, President of the Department of 
 Parks of the City of Xew York, lind may it remain here as long 
 as this great city exists as an emblem of good and purity and 
 valor.'' 
 
 Unveiling of the Statue 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison, wife of the great inventor and a 
 member of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, assisted by Miss 
 Elizabeth Handforth Kunz, daughter of the President, and Miss 
 Edwina Gazzam Hall, daughter of the Secretary of the committee, 
 then pulled the rope which released the draperies of the statue 
 and revealed it to the public gaze. At the same time, the First 
 Field Artillery of the Xational Guard of Xew York fired a salute, 
 the band of the Lafayette Guards played the French Xational 
 Anthem, the Marseillaise, and the people applauded enthu- 
 siastically. 
 
 Acceptance hy Hon. Cabot Ward 
 
 When the enthusiasm over the unveiling of the statue had sub- 
 sided, Hon. Cabot Ward, President of the Park Commission of 
 the City of Xew York, accepted the monument in behalf of the 
 city as follows : 
 
 ^' Ladies and Gentlemen : In the membership of the Joan of 
 Arc Statue Committee are found the names of many who have 
 
40 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 already performed distinguished services. But if the members of 
 this Committee had rendered no other service to the city but this, 
 they would nevertheless be entitled to the everlasting gratitude of 
 JSTew York. 
 
 '^ The parks of the city and its open spaces are very important 
 to us all not only as recreation places, where the people may find 
 the refreshment they need in order to make them healthier and 
 better citizens, but they are of tremendous importance as indicat- 
 ing the artistic value this community places on beautiful things 
 and as typifying the city's ideals. Too often in the past have 
 monuments been erected in the parks w^ithout due regard to their 
 importance to New York, or to their right to occupy the city's 
 great centers. To-day we have in our parks many so-called works 
 of art, unworthy of the city and unworthy of the site, until New 
 York has indeed become famous for some amazing statuary. 
 
 " But here we see one of the notable exceptions. A splendid 
 example for the future of a noble subject; a real work of art; 
 a splendid ideal, placed before the citizens in a prominent place 
 amidst a beautiful setting. 
 
 ^' When this project was started some of our fellows-citizens felt 
 that a statue of Joan of Arc in New York City was out of place 
 as belonging to a far-away and distant age. They admitted that 
 Joan of Arc was perhaps the most heroic woman's figure in his- 
 tory, but that too much concerning her was visionary and 
 legendary, and that she had no vital message to give to our 
 historical background in this country and our present-day 
 problems. 
 
 " To-day, however, I believe that none would question for a 
 moment the inspiration and help we can derive from the presence 
 of this monument amongst us. This committee's work is memor- 
 able for they have not stopped at accomplishing their object in 
 erecting the statue, but they have tremendously increased by 
 research and investigation the sum total of our knowledge of the 
 Maid of Orleans. 
 
 '^ We are beginning to realize in these days that faith in God 
 and faith in a great cause are the foundation stones of the great 
 achievements of history. 
 
 '^ But patriotism is not satisfied by the spoken word and the 
 waving of a flag. From the lesson of Joan of Arc must be learned 
 that patriotism means self-sacrifice. It means the willingness to 
 give up material benefits for the sake of the cause ; it means unsel- 
 fishness ; self-abnegation ; patience and self-sacrifice. 
 
 " Joan of Arc started when her cause seemed to be lost beyond 
 repair. She persevered against conventional opinion, and there 
 again is a great lesson for us in this country. 
 
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Joan of Arc Statue 41 
 
 '' lu these days the expert is our ideaL We worship system 
 and we are too ready to turn in the midst of a fight to some other 
 proposal because it seems to have popularity at the moment. We 
 attach too little weight to the vision that has a purpose and 
 enthusiasms that are undying. We are so satiated with material- 
 ism that we frequently look on the things of the spirit as weaken- 
 ing rather than strengthening. We deify education in the sense of 
 the training of men's minds, and forget the education of their 
 souls. We need the example of what has been accomplished by 
 faith, by those who had a great vision and believed in it. 
 
 ^' It is well that we have here a constant reminder of how empty 
 is all knowledge and system and method without spirit and vision 
 to vivify it and inspire it. How vain is statescraft and military 
 organization without patriotism ; how futile is system without high 
 purpose and consecration to service; how empty is life without 
 faith and hope. 
 
 " Well may 'New York erect a statue to Joan of Arc. Clear- 
 headed and resolute, she was at the same time one of those rarest 
 examples in history — a practical idealist. She saw visions wdth 
 marvelous insight and indomitable force of purpose. She carried 
 out those high ideals to the betterment of the people of her times. 
 
 ^' And so the greatest city of the western world has set apart 
 this splendid site not only because the memorial itself is beautiful 
 and inspiring but because it is destined for years to come to inspire 
 and urge on to greater efforts the sons and daughters of this city 
 to serve its cause unselfishly ; to devote themselves heart and soul 
 to the betterment of New York." 
 
 Congratulations hy the President of the United States and Others 
 
 Edward Hagaman Hall, L. H. D., the Secretary of the committee, 
 read copies of the letter from the President of the United States 
 and other messages of congratulation and expressions of sentiment 
 the originals of which liad been deposited in the pedestal before the 
 placing of the statue. (See pages 20-32 preceding.) He also 
 communicated a verbal message, received by telephone from Mayor 
 Mitchel, expressing regret that illness prevented his presence in 
 person to accept the monument in behalf of the city. Among the 
 messages received by telegraph on the day of the dedication was 
 one of ^' hearty congratulation " from Mr. Frank Edwin Scott of 
 Paris, and the following: 
 
42 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 University of Manitoba, 
 Manitoba, Winnipeg, 
 December 6, 1915. 
 George Frederick Kunz, 
 JSTew York. 
 
 The recently founded Alliance Frangaise of Winnipeg congTatu- 
 lates you on the superb idea of dedicating on American soil a 
 statue to the memory of Joan of Arc, the saintly heroine of 
 France. In the fifteenth century the Maid of Doniremy rallied 
 France under the banner of a pure patriotism of an unsullied 
 idealism. May her memory hearten the Frenchmen of to-day in 
 their heroic struggle against the shameless barbarism. 
 
 William Frederick Osbori^, 
 
 President of the Alliance Frangaise 
 
 of Winnipeg 
 
 Address by His Excellency, Jean J. Jusserand 
 
 His Excellency the French Ambassador to the United States, 
 Mons. Jean J. Jusserand, then spoke as follows: 
 
 ^^ On this land, the very existence of which was unsuspected 
 at the time she lived, a statue has been raised to the greatest and 
 most admirable of French women, Joan of Arc. 
 
 '' In this land where material progress may veil to the casual 
 observer some of the invisible forces leading the nation, one of 
 the most powerful of these is sentiment. 
 
 '^ Five centuries separate us from the events which we now 
 commemorate; the country where they took place is divided from 
 this one by the ocean; and wann-hearted Americans, Dr. Kunz, 
 Mr. Saltus, their numerous friends and helpers, have considered 
 that the image of the deliverer of France should be raised on these 
 shores, here to remain forever, as an emblem and an inspiration, 
 so that the teachings of her life may influence generation after 
 generation of American citizens. In this as in many other recent 
 cases which will long be remembered in France, they obey a 
 sentiment. 
 
 '' France, the oldest organized country in Europe if centuries 
 arc counted, the youngest perhaps if one considers her spirit and 
 aptitude to enthusiasm, has known more than once the summit of 
 prosperity and the abyss of misery, ever surviving and destined 
 ever to survive: (icillia perennis. 
 
 '^ At no time, in the course of her long history, were her pros- 
 pects so dark as in the early days of the year 1429, with a weak 
 
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 and worthless king, the son of a mad predecessor, disinherited by 
 his father, surrounded by a few great nobles whose chief business 
 was to injure one another, the people aimless and confused, many 
 among them siding with an enemy that was partly French, whose 
 king was of French blood, having with ours a long line of common 
 ancestors. 
 
 '' Xo resistance, no patriotism, no faith, a universal yielding; 
 men yielding to their passions, their ambitions, their fears ; most 
 of the territory, its chief ports and cities in the hands of the 
 foe ; anarchy everywhere, on the soil and in the hearts, a decadent 
 nation if ever there was one. 
 
 '^ Less than a year later, a change had taken place such as the 
 world never saw. The national feeling which had had but a 
 dormant existence had been aroused never to fade again; the 
 invincible enemy had been vanquished, the weakling sovereign, 
 doubting his own rights, living in fear, with no troops, no crown, 
 no will, had become a real king, anointed in that august cathedral 
 of Rheims, which no hand has been so sacrilegious as to deface, 
 in the course of its millenial existence, until the present day. 
 The nation has become one with a single purpose, it can fight and 
 win the fight; it has faith. 
 
 " A child has done it. What had been impossible for the scion 
 of the Capetian race, his nobles, his doctors, for all the favorites 
 of fortune, has been done in a few weeks by a country maid. Xo 
 greater miracle was ever seen. 
 
 '' Joan had reached Chinon, with six soldiers, on the 23rd of 
 February, 1429 ; she relieved Orleans in May, won the battle of 
 Patay in Jime, had the king cro^^med in July, in the presence of 
 his nobles and prelates, in the presence also of the humble 
 peasants, the father and mother of the deliverer of France. 
 
 '' An extraordinary awakening. The heartless, to be sure, con- 
 tinued heartless — that is the deficiency which nothing can cure. 
 But the mass of the nation stood up ; the common people saw in 
 that woman from their midst a God-given leader, one more 
 national saint. Men of rank enlisted as privates in her army from 
 wdiich, long before puritanical times, debauchery, blasphemy, 
 looting were excluded : When the daughter of James d'Arc and 
 Isabella Rommee assumed the leading of an army, equality began. 
 Old Christine de Pisan, retired in a convent, took up her pen again 
 and sang of the new heroine. The long night is finished : ' In the 
 year 1429 the sun began to shine again.' 
 
 " L'an mil quatre cens vingt et neuf 
 Reprit a luire le soleil. 
 
 " A few weeks more, and for the deliverer, the peerless being, 
 the saint, all is anguish and torture; for her, defeat, prison, the 
 
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 indifference of her king^ endless interrogatories worse than the 
 rack ; lier Voices have become silent. 
 
 " She heard them once more speaking words of comfort : the 
 deliverer would be delivered. She was, but by Death. She was, 
 and now the stones of her prison have become by your will the 
 pedestal of her statue. From the pyre at Rouen, her spirit rose 
 and still watches over the country which she saved, continuing 
 the tradition of those other French saints, kings or shepherds, 
 kings like Saint Louis, shepherds like Saint Genevieve, patroness 
 of Paris who, at the time of the city's gTeatest danger, when it 
 was near falling a prey to the enemy, prophesied that Attila would 
 not reach it, but turn towards the plains of the Mame there to be 
 defeated ; and so it was ; so it has been. 
 
 '' The consequences of what Joan of Arc did are still lasting. 
 At a supreme hour, when all the rest failed, leadership had been 
 assumed by the people represented by Joan of Arc. She gave the 
 nation the sense of what it was ; for a few months, and never again 
 until the Revolution, the people led the country. The thought 
 of the Sovereign was uppermost in Joan's mind, but for her the 
 King was France itself. He was for her what the flag is for us, 
 the emblem of the nation, and no one pays attention to the stuff 
 it is made of. 
 
 '^ Iso wonder that, to worship her, there is unanimity in France ; 
 the cult of Joan of Arc is one which our Revolution left untouched. 
 In the year XI of the Republic, the Municipal Council of Orleans 
 decided that a monument should be raised to the Maid. The First 
 Consul, Bonaparte, ^\Tote on the margin of the resolution: ^I 
 approve with delight. The illustrious Joan of Arc has shown that 
 there is no miracle that French genius cannot perfonn when 
 national independence is threatened. United, the French nation 
 has never been vanquished.' 
 
 '' The former enemy, now for over a century a trusted friend of 
 France, an admired one, a greater friend every day, vies with us 
 in veneration for the Maid. 
 
 ^' As for you, Americans, this statue, the noble work of an 
 American maiden, appropriately recalls the similitude of what 
 both our countries cherish in this world. Speaking the other day 
 in this city, your President, with no thought to be sure of Joan of 
 Arc in his mind, tlius defined your ideal: 
 
 " ' Our principles arc well known. We believe in political liberty . . . 
 the liberty of men and of peoples — of men to choose their own lives and of 
 peoples to choose their own allegiances. Our ambition is to be the friend and 
 thoughtful partisan of those who are free or who desire freedom the world 
 over.' 
 
Chateau de Rouen, France. 
 Remains of staircase turret from which stones were taken in 1914 for pedestal of 
 Joan of Arc statue in New York in advanced stage of excavation. Donjon tower 
 in background. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 45 
 
 '^ This happens to define what had been Joan of Arc's chief 
 aim: that each nation be free to develop unhampered its own 
 destiny on its owm soil. 
 
 '' For what you have done, American friends, I offer you the 
 thanks of France, brought nearer to you by your sentiments, of 
 France for whom, more than ever at this day, the name of Joan 
 of Arc is sacred, for that name means self abnegation, it means 
 fortitude, it means victory." 
 
 Decoration of Mr. Saltus and Miss Hyatt 
 
 The French Ambassador then turned to Mr. J. Sanford Saltus, 
 Honorary President of the Committee, who sat near him, and 
 with a few graceful words expressing appreciation of what Mr. 
 Saltus had done to encourage French art and letters and knowl- 
 edge of French history, conferred upon him, in the name of the 
 French government, the cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. 
 
 He then turned to Miss Anna Vaughn Hyatt, the sculptress, and 
 in the name of his government bestowed upon her the decoration 
 of Officer of Public Instruction. 
 
 Address hy Eohert W. de Forest, LL. D. 
 
 Robert W. de Forest, LL. D., President of the Art Commission 
 of the City of Xew York, and also of the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, spoke as follows : 
 
 '' Ladies and Gentlemen : It is not without significance that 
 in dedicating this statue to the memory of an heroic woman we 
 should hesitate whether to call her ' Joan of Arc ' or ' Jeanne 
 d'Arc ' If we were dedicating it in the land of Schiller, as well 
 might be, we would be speaking of her as the ' Jungfrau 
 von Orleans.' She stands for more than a mere heroine of France. 
 
 " The mother of our Lord was a Jewess. But no one in the 
 Christian world now thinks of her as belonging to any particular 
 race. To the art of Bellini and Raphael she is an Italian mother. 
 To the art of Van Eyck and Memling she is a Flemish maiden. 
 To the art of Durer and Holbein she is a German jungfrau. To 
 us she represents the eternal mother — the mother that yearns 
 over her children and to whom they turn for a mother's love and 
 protection. Such motherhood is of every countrv- and of every 
 people. 
 
 " So it is with Jeanne d'Arc. She is to us the embodiment of 
 woman's devotion to her country's cause — a 'devotion which 
 
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 knows no nation's bonds. We see her here in proud panoply of 
 armor, striving with foes w^ithout. We can see her in our Art 
 Museum in humble peasant garb, striving only with foes within. 
 But whether we see her here as portrayed in Miss Hyatt's noble 
 statue or there as in the masterpiece of Bastien Le Page, our 
 thought rests not on her elaborate armor nor on her simple dress 
 but on the sublime devotion of her mien. 
 
 '^ Within the week which preceded the outbreak of this appalling 
 war, under the shadow of which we meet to-day, I stood beside the 
 statue of Jeanne d'Arc which has been placed in front of the 
 Cathedral of Rheims. I looked over to the rows of gothic saints 
 which then adorned its portals. I looked through those portals 
 to the jeweled glass which then illuminated its aisles. It was 
 through these portals that Jeanne d'Arc marched in victory to 
 crown her King. It was that stained glass which was reflected 
 upon her white robe as she knelt at the altar. 
 
 " Those gothic saints, that jeweled glass, are no more. But 
 Jeanne d'Arc still sits on her charger, calm and erect, untouched 
 by the ruins which surround her. May it not be a happy sign, 
 a hopeful omen, that whatever else may pass away, woman's 
 devotion remains indestructible, eternal, to inspire us to new effort 
 even out of the depths of despair and to bring us victory even when 
 our cause has seemed lost ? " 
 
 Address hy Hon, McDougall Hawhes 
 
 Hon. McDougall Hawkes, President of the Museum of French 
 Art of rinstitut Frangais aux Etats Unis, Commissioner of 
 Bridges and Tunnels of the State of New York, and formerly Com- 
 missioner of Docks and Ferries of the City of Xew York, spoke of 
 Joan of Arc as typifying the spirit of France. He said : 
 
 '' Your Excellency : We are assembled to do honor to one of 
 the greatest characters known to history. Five centuries ago, 
 Joan of Arc by her youthful enthusiasm aroused a spirit which 
 repelled the invader from her country. While to France may 
 justly be allowed the priceless privilege of naming her as her 
 own, yet to the world at large must be conceded the right of 
 cherishing her memory. 
 
 '' Thousands of miles from the land where the peasant girl of 
 Lorraine fought and gave lier life for her mother-country, a 
 people, speaking a different language, unite to render her homage, 
 for what she accomplished was altogether beyond the realm of 
 local and material success. Slie kindled, through faith in her 
 mission and by her loyalty, the fire of liberty which brought forth 
 the modern conception of nationality. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 47 
 
 '' Patriotic citizens of the United States may properly feel that 
 they owe her a public debt of gratitude; for she stands as the 
 embodiment in modern times of inspired devotion and self- 
 sacrifice and as such the church has beatified her. But she stands 
 also as the symbol of the true spirit of her mother-country, for she 
 infused a different soul into the body of mediaeval France torn by 
 sectional differences. 
 
 " When the project of this statue was initiated some six years 
 ago, it would have been impossible to realize the peculiar 
 appropriateness which would attend its consummation. France, 
 the mother of Joan of Arc, is battling to-day for the liberty of 
 the world, as the daughter fought in her time for the liberty of 
 her country. 
 
 " Your Excellency, this noble work in sculpture will remain for 
 years to come as a tribute in the metropolis of the Western Hemi- 
 sphere to the greatness of your nation in the modern peril. Clear 
 cut and firm this statue stands here to testify to the admiration 
 which the citizens of a sister republic feel for the spirit of 
 France — a spirit which breathes not only patriotism — that is 
 the love of one's own country — but an even greater quality, the 
 readiness to sacrifice one's flesh and blood in defence of the liberty 
 to which humanity, from its very existence, ever has an inherent 
 right. 
 
 " Mr. Saltus, Dr. Kunz : Our citizens thank you for the oppor- 
 tunity which you have afforded them to share in this expression 
 of sympathy and affection for France, represented on this occasion 
 by our distinguished guest, Mr. Jusserand." 
 
 Address hy Prof. Louis Delamarre 
 
 Prof. Louis Delamarre, Secretary General of the Federation de 
 V Alliance Frangaise aux Etats Unis, delivered an address in 
 French, of which the following is a translation: 
 
 ^' Ladies and Gentlemen : In Joan of Arc has been celebrated 
 the heroine, the saint, the warrior, the Frenchwoman, the incarna- 
 tion of the spirit of France. It only remains to the Federation 
 de I'Alliance Frangaise, whose mission is to propagate in this 
 country the diffusion of the literature, arts and history of France, 
 to salute her as the Inspirer of Letters and of Arts. 
 
 " All epochs have had their favorite heroes, legendary or 
 historical, whom the litterateur has exploited and who, ere long, 
 the attraction of the temporary novelty vanished, have been buried 
 in oblivion. Joan of Arc differs from the common sort. She 
 made an exception to the fatal law which limits unmercifully the 
 duration of popularity. Without any interruption, for 476 years 
 
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 beginning eight years after her death, she has not ceased to haunt 
 the mind of our writers. From century to century, tragedy has 
 clothed her in the attitude of the classic heroes; epic poem has 
 recounted her incomparable achievements; history has searched 
 her life and discussed her legend ; eloquence has exalted her virtues 
 and her high deeds; lyric poesy has bewailed the sadness and 
 injustice of her death. And all this legion of dramatists, poets 
 and historians, whose names I have not time to mention, Avould 
 have been able to say, with more reason than Victor Hugo, speak- 
 ing of Napoleon: 
 
 " ' His stately image ceaselessly disturbs my thought 
 
 The breath creative pours he forth into my breast. 
 
 I tremble; words at once within my mouth abound, 
 
 When his gigantic name, with halos girt around. 
 In all its majesty is in my verses dressed.' 
 
 '^ Artists have suffered the same seduction as the litterateurs. 
 This model attracts them; this figure of woman and warrior 
 impresses itself upon them. At the time of our exposition of 
 Joan of Arc two years ago we contemplated with an admiration 
 mixed with surprise this multitude of artistic works which have 
 followed since the fifteenth century, rivaling each other in finesse, 
 exactitude and grace. Scarcely was Joan of Arc dead when her 
 image appeared on tapestries flowered with crowns and lilies, in 
 the pictures of painters of France and Flanders — and this 
 tradition is still maintained, inasmuch as at the Palace of France 
 at San Francisco, one was able to admire four tapestries after the 
 designs of Jean Paul J^aurens recounting the life of our heroine. 
 In the churches and upon the public places of France, at Paris, 
 Rouen, Domremy, Orleans, and in a hundred other cities, bas- 
 reliefs and statues represent Joan in poses which symbolize the 
 various aspects of her existence and the mystery of her mission. 
 The engraver has traced her lineaments on wood, stone and metal. 
 Thanks to the artists, one is able to say that there is not in the 
 history of France a single personage who has been so often placed 
 before the admiration of the people by statuary, painting, engrav- 
 ing, design or popular imagery. 
 
 '' It only remains then, ladies and gentlemen, for the Alliance 
 FrauQaise to add to all the homages rendered to Joan of Arc its 
 tribute of gratitude to the humble shepherdess who led the armies 
 of France to victory, for having inspired in addition our lit- 
 terateurs and artists to so manv beautiful works." 
 
Stones from the Chateau de Rouen, loaded at Rouen, France, for Ship- 
 ment TO New York, for Pedestal of Joan of Arc Statue. 
 
 Joan of Arc Statue, New York. 
 Micrograph of Stone from Chateau de Rouen. 
 
Joan of Arc Statue 49 
 
 Address hy J. Alden Weir 
 
 Mr. J. Alden Weir, President of tlie National Academy of 
 Design, spoke as follows: 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : In the dedication of this equestrian 
 statue of Joan of Arc, we, as Americans, voice our appreciation 
 of the time when France stood by us in our hour of need. 
 
 '' This statue records an episode in the history of the French 
 nation worthy to be commemorated here in our land. In 
 accepting this addition to the City of Xew York which has been so 
 graciously presented by some of our fellow-citizens, we recognize 
 our indebtedness to them and our friendship for France. It is 
 with great pleasure I congratulate Miss Hyatt wdio has produced 
 this fine statue, that it will be not alone an ornament to our city 
 but also a work of art worthy of it. 
 
 '' Joan of Arc, the Inspired Maid of Domremy, in Lorraine, 
 France, was but in her fifteenth year when she saw the vision 
 of St. Michael and St. Catherine. She who saw visions and 
 dreamed dreams was but a child, yet those visions were never 
 effaced from her memory. Discouragements and reverses never 
 caused her to waver in Avhat she believed to be her duty. With 
 those inspired visions, she felt herself called, and in her ardor, 
 rallied the armies of her country. Thus did success crown her 
 eifort. 
 
 ^^ The history of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, we all 
 admire, and it should stimulate the people of this metropolis to 
 ponder and realize the sacrifices that are made by many, who in 
 peace as well as w^ar, have devoted their lives unselfishly to noble 
 deeds, for the benefit of humanity and for their country's good." 
 
 Benediction hy Mgr. Michael J. Lavelle, LL. D. 
 
 The benediction was pronounced by the Most Rev. ^lonsignor 
 Michael J. Lavelle, LL. D., representing His Eminence John 
 Cardinal Farley; and the ceremonies closed witli the playing 
 of '' America "' hy the l)and. 
 
 Official Delegations 
 
 Following is a li^^t of the delegates to the ceremonies appointed 
 by the leading historical, art and patriotic organizations of Xew 
 York : 
 
 American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society: George 
 Frederick Kunz, Ph. D., Sc. D., Edward D. Adams, LL.D., 
 Reginald P. Bolton, Col. Henry W. Sackett. 
 
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 Alliance Frangaise de Xew Yorh: Prof. Charles A. Downer, 
 Prof. Daniel Jordan, Stnyvesant Wainright, Rene Wildenstein. 
 
 American Xnmismatic Society: Archer ]M. Huntington, 
 Litt. D., Edward T. :N'ewell, John Reilly, Jr., Elliott Smith. 
 
 Daughters of the American Revolution: 3Irs. William Gum- 
 ming Story, Mrs. Simon Barucli, !Miss Elorence G. Finch, Mrs. 
 Livingston Rowe Schuyler. 
 
 Daughters of the Cincinnati: Miss Julia Ghester Wells, Miss 
 Annie Glarkson. 
 
 Daughters of the Eevolution: Mrs. Everett M. Ravnor, Mrs. 
 Oliver R. Brandt, :\rrs. Harry Lilly, Mrs. Lillian G. Miller. 
 
 Federation d' Alliance Fixingaise aux Etats-Unis: Prof. Louis 
 Delamarre, Alexander T. Mason, T. Tile^^ton Wells, Prof. Bert E. 
 Young. 
 
 Fine Arts Federation: Lion. Francis G. Jones, Hon. Herhert 
 Adams, Prof. Friedrich Dielman, Richard H. Hunt. 
 
 France- America Committee: A. Barton Llephurn, LL.D., 
 D. C. L., F. Gunliffe-Owen, Paul Fuller, Jr., Edward Robinson, 
 LL.D., Litt. D. 
 
 Jeanne d'Arc Home: Very Rev. Theophile Wucher, D. D., 
 Sister Superior M. Glotilde, Ladies of the Home. 
 
 Knights of Columbus: ^lajor William J. Gostigan, Gapt. 
 William H. Patton, Lieut. John Joseph Lord, and Detail in 
 L^niform. 
 
 Lafayette Guards: Gaptain A. Blum and Golor Guard. 
 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert W. de Forest, LL.D., 
 Edward D. Adams, LL.D., George Blumonthal, Daniel G. French, 
 Litt. D. 
 
 Museum of French Art, Institut Fra)ic(ns aux Etats-Unis: 
 Hon. McDougall Hawkes, Thomas Iliiiihcs Kelly, (Jeorge X. 
 Miller, .M. D., Edward T. Newell. 
 
 National Academy of Design: J. AldcMi Weir, Hon. Edwin H. 
 Blashfield, Kenyon "Cox, Litt. D., Daniel G. French, Litt. D. 
 
 National Sculpture Society: Hon. Herbert Adams, Robert 
 Aitkin, Miss Janet Scudder, Lloyd Warren. 
 
 New York Historical Society: John A. Weekes, James Bene- 
 dict, Gapt. Richard H. Greene, llohvvt H. Kelby. 
 
 Soriftf's des Architcctes Dipiomfs par Ir (iouvcrnemcnt: Joseph 
 II. Kreedlander, Ghester II. Aldrich, Howard Greenly, John 
 Oakman. 
 
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 Societe Nationale des Professeurs Frangais: Prof. Auguste 
 George, Prof. Adolph Colin, Prof. Daniel Jordan, Prof. Paul 
 de Monthule. 
 
 Society of Beaux Arts Architectes : Henry Hornbostel, William 
 Lawrence Bottomley, Llojd Warren, Benjamin Wistar Morris. 
 
 Society of the War of 1812: Asa Bird Gardiner, LL.D., 
 L.H.D., Gen. William G. Bates, John Ross Delafield, Hon. 
 Charles H. Sherrill. 
 
 Sons of the American Revolution : Louis Annin Ames, John H. 
 Burroughs, Capt. Charles A. Du Bois, Rev. Frank O. Hall, D. D. 
 
 Sons of the Revolution: Gen. Robert Olyphant, Edmund Wet- 
 more, Henry Russell Drowne, Clarence Winthrop Bowen, Walter 
 C. Hubbard. 
 
 United States Daughters of 1812: Mrs. William Gerry Slade, 
 Mrs. John T. Van-Sickle, Mrs. George B. Wallis, Mrs. William 
 Guthrie Winder. 
 
 Veteran Artillery Corps: Asa Bird Gardiner, LL.D., L.LI.D., 
 Benjamin R. Loomis, Chandler Smith, Walter Lispenard Suydam. 
 
 The Chamber of Deputies of France was represented by 
 Monsieur Maurice Damour, of the Landes, Secretary of the 
 Budget Committee of the Chamber. 
 
 The Fifteen Fquestrian Statues of the Maid 
 
 In 1U13 the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 
 published a list of all the equestrian statues in the world and 
 found that they numbered 675 at that time. Fourteen were of 
 Joan of Arc. Of the latter, thirteen were in France and one — a 
 replica of one in Paris l>y Fremiet — in Philadelphia, Penn. 
 There are numerous statues of Joan of Arc not equestrian. Miss 
 Hyatt's is the second equestrian statue of the Maid to be erected 
 in the United States. 
 
 The equestrian statues of Joan of Arc are at the following 
 
 places : 
 
 Ballon d' Alsace by unknown sculptor 
 Chinon, by Jules Pierre Roulleau 
 Mirecourt, by Emmanuel Fremiet 
 Montebourg, by unknown sculptor 
 Nancy, by Emmanuel Fremiet 
 Xantes, by Charles Auguste Lebourg 
 
52 Joan of Arc Statue 
 
 Orleans, (Bishopric Garden) by Armand le Veel 
 
 Orleans (Place dii Martroi) by Denis Foyatier 
 
 Paris (Church of St. Augustin) by Paul Dubois'^ 
 
 Paris (Pantheon) by Paul Dubois^" 
 
 Paris (Place des Pyramides) by Emmanuel Fremiet 
 
 Rheims, by Paul Dubois 
 
 Vaucouleurs, by Emmanuel Fremiet 
 
 Philadelphia, Penn., replica of that in Paris by Fremiet 
 
 Xew York City, by Anna Vaughn Hyatt 
 
 Joan of xircs Name, Home and Family 
 
 The interest aroused by the announcement of the dedication of 
 the statue has caused several inquiries to be made of the Com- 
 mittee as to the origin of Joan of Arc's name. 
 
 Joan of Arc's father Jacques was of the village of Arc before 
 he moved to Domremy where Joan, or Jeanne, was bom, and he 
 was known as Jacques d'Arc, so that d'Arc became their family 
 name. Arc is on the river Meurthe eight or ten miles southeast of 
 ISTancy and is now known as Arc-sur-Meurthe. Joan had several 
 nicknames. By the villagers she was called Jeannette, the diminu- 
 tive or affectionate term for Jeanne. They also spoke of her as 
 the bergerette, or little shepherdess. But on account of her 
 prowess at the siege of Orleans, she was more widely known as 
 La Pucelle d'Orleans (the Maid of Orleans), or simply as La 
 Pucelle (the Maid). 
 
 Domremy, where she Avas born, lies in the Mcuse valley about 
 40 miles southwest of Xancy. Formerly called Domremy-sur- 
 Meuso, it is now called Domremy-la-Pucclle in her honor. It is 
 a hamlet of the humblest character but saturated with memories 
 of the Maid. A statue of her by E. Paul, erected in L*^55, stands 
 in front of the village church and above the i)ortal is a mural 
 painting by Baize representing her listening to the mysterious 
 voices. Near the church is the cottage in which she was born. 
 In the garden of the cottage is a group by Mercie representing her 
 as she left her homo led by the Genius of France. Over the door 
 are the royal arms of France and those granted to f Joan's 
 
 * Copies of that at Rheims. It is difficult to reconcile tlie existence of these 
 two replicas. Baedeker is authority for that at llio (lunch of St. Augustin 
 and a jjliotograidi attests that nt the Pantlu^on. 
 
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 family. In a niche above is a kneeling figure of the girl, like one 
 inside the house said to date from 1456. The cottage contains 
 a small museum of objects relating to the heroine. Statues of 
 Joan, some of them equestrian, are numerous in this section of 
 France. 
 
 As indicated by the letters from Mons. Louis d'Arc of Ville- 
 neuve-sur-Lot, previously quoted, the descendants of the d'Arc 
 family took an intense interest in the dedication of the statue 
 of their great-aunt in Xew York. To those may be added one 
 more letter to Dr. Kunz from ]Mons. d'Arc, which reflects con- 
 ditions in France at the time of writing : 
 
 (Translation) 
 
 Villeneuve sur Lot, Nov. 23, 1915. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Your letter of the 5th inst., has just come to hand, and I hasten 
 to answer it. I had not failed to inquire of all my cousins and 
 the members of my family, whether some one of them would be 
 able to go to New York to represent us at the inauguration cere- 
 monies of your beautiful statue. This would have been done 
 gladly, and we are sorely disappointed at the thought that no one 
 of us will be present, for this would have been an honor for all 
 of us and a treasured memory. For my part, I feel a very lively 
 regret. But the answers I have received are all in the negative : 
 none of my cousins is able to leave France at this moment. Some 
 are fighting beneath the flag, others are anxious regarding the fate 
 of their sons exposed to death, still others again are mourning the 
 loss of those dear to them. The circumstances are too serious and 
 our hearts too much oppressed for it to be possible to think of 
 leaving France at such a moment. Our wives and daughters are 
 all employed in the hospitals, they cannot neglect their national 
 obligations, even to be present at this family ceremony. Accept, 
 my dear sir, with the renewed expression of my deep regrets, the 
 assurances of my lively gratitude and of my devoted s}Tnpathy. 
 
 L. d'Akc. 
 
 In concluding this report, we may quote a sentence from a 
 letter from ^fons. Jean do Beaurepaire of Eoucn, to Dr. Kunz, 
 dated December 5, 1915, in which French faith in Joan of Arc 
 is expressed in these words : 
 
 ^' Joan of Arc, at last we are sure of it, will give to us a very 
 great victory and will save once more our beloved country."