HENRI-ROBERT - Lot 121

HENRI-ROBERT 1863-1936. Lawyer, historian and member of the Académie française in 1923. M.A.S. "Henri-Robert de l'Académie française - Ancien Bâtonnier", entitled "Le Procès d'une Sainte". S.l.n.d. 4 pp 1/2 in-folio. ...The Trial of Joan of Arc is nothing but a parody of justice. Better said: it's not a trial, it's an assassination [...]. She foiled all the tricks of her accusers. Calm and proud, she says simply: "I have come to the King of France by God, by the Blessed Virgin Mary [...]. To this Church, I submit all my good deeds, everything I have done and will do". Ah, the noble attitude. Nothing could trouble her or break her fortitude [...]. On May 30, 1431, on the Place du Vieux Marché in Rouen, the great deed was about to be accomplished. Jeanne is surrounded by men She leaves the changing days for eternal things.... And when she expires, a white dove flies up to heaven. Even her executioners would seize [be seized] with terror at her sublime death. Didn't one of them cry out: "We're lost, we've burned a saint!"...The brilliant lawyer Henri-Robert saved several heads from the guillotine. President of the Paris Bar from 1913 to 1919, he began writing biographies of historical figures from France and England (Henri VIII, Marie-Antoinette, Catherine de Médicis, Marie Stuart, etc.).