We are presenting a program for school. Some are in a play; Miss Elma said I could recite a soliloquy from Joan of Arc. She saw Maude Adams on the stage in New York as Joan of Arc and had a handbill with her picture. I made my dress with lacing on the bodice similar to the picture of Maude Adams' costume.
Maude Adams (1872–1953) as Joan of Arc, 1909Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)
Oil on canvas; 82 1/4 x 30 in. (208.9 x 76.2 cm)
Signed, dated, and inscribed: (lower left) Mucha / 1909; (bottom) MAUDE ADAMS as JOAN of ARC
Gift of A. J. Kobler, 1920
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QUOTATIONS INVOLVING JOAN'S VOICES AND INSPIRATIONS
"My mother had told me that my father often dreamed that I would run away with a band of soldiers. That was more than two years after I first heard the voices. She told me that he had said to my brothers, "If I believed that the thing I have dreamed about her would come to pass, I would want you to drown her; and if you would not, I would drown her myself." But since God had commanded me to go, I must do it. And since God had commanded it, had I had a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, and had I been a king's daughter, I would have gone. It pleased God thus to act through a simple maid in order to turn back the King's enemies.
I must be with the King before mid-Lent, though I wear my legs to the knees on the road. For there is none in this world - neither kings, nor dukes, nor the King of Scotland's daughter, nor any other - who can restore the Kingdom of France. Nor is there any succor for it but from me.
Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so.
Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!"
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