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JOAN OF ARC FIVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN FRANCE (“Times” Cables ) (Rec. February 25, 11.50 p.m.) London, February 25. The Paris correspondent of ’The Times” says that the prolonged commemoration of Joan of Arc’s five hundredth annitenarv on March 11 began to-day at Vaucouleurs, the Lorraine village, when began the historic journey to Chinon in order to meet the Dauphin. The village was gaily decorated. and was filled with delegations from every part of France. There was fine, frosty weather, and the air resounded w T ith church bells in every church in Lorraine as the procession wended its way to the stone gateway on the hill outside the village, to which Joan and her companions rode. The procession halted at the chapel in which Joan prayed, also at the old lime tree where, according to tradition. Joan heard supernatural voices. The Bishop of Verdun unveiled a tablet at the gateway, and told the story of Joan’s eleven Cays ride astride a farm horse, though she had not ridden a horse before. He added that Joan remains the symbol of France’s fortitude.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 9
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