It is right however that you should know, that, in the Tribunal for the determination of commercial causes, there sits a very respectable Bench of Judges:  among whom I recognised one that had perfectly the figure, air, and countenance, of an Englishman.  On enquiry of my guide, I found my supposition verified.  He was an Englishman; but had been thirty years a resident in Rouen.  The judicial costume is appropriate in every respect; but I could not help smiling, the other morning, upon meeting my friend the judge, standing before the door of his house, in the open street—­with a hairy cap on—­leisurely smoking his pipe—­And wherein consisted the harm of such a delassement?

[61] [I apprehend this custom to be prevalent in fortified towns:—­as
    Rouen formerly was—­and as I found such custom to obtain at the
    present day, at Strasbourg.  Mons. Licquet says that the allusion to
    the curfew—­or couvre-feu—­as appears in the previous
    edition—­and which the reader well knows was established by the
    Conqueror with us—­was no particular badge of the slavery of the
    English.  It had been previously established by William in NORMANDY. 
    Millot is referred to as the authority.]

[62] the famous JEANNE D’ARC.] Goube, in the second volume of his
    Histoire du Duche de Normandie, has devoted several spiritedly
    written pages to an account of the trial and execution of this
    heroine.  Her history is pretty well known to the English—­from
    earliest youth.  Goube says that her mode of death had been completely
    prejudged; for that, previously to the sentence being passed, they
    began to erect “a scaffold of plaster, so raised, that the flames
    could not at first reach her—­and she was in consequence consumed by a
    slow fire:  her tortures being long and horrible.”  Hume has been rather
    too brief:  but he judiciously observes that the conduct of the Duke of
    Bedford “was equally barbarous and dishonourable.”  Indeed it were
    difficult to pronounce which is entitled to the greatest
    abhorrence—­the imbecility of Charles VII. the baseness of John of
    Luxembourg, or the treachery of the Regent Bedford?

The identical spot on which she suffered is not now visible, according to Millin; that place having been occupied by the late Marche des Veaux.  It was however not half a stone’s throw from the site of the present statue.  In the Antiquites Nationales of the last mentioned author (vol. iii. art. xxxvi.) there are three plates connected with the History of JOAN of ARC.  The first plate represents the Porte Bouvreuil to the left, and the circular old tower to the right—­in which latter Joan was confined, with some houses before it; the middle ground is a complete representation of the rubbishing