Joan of Arc confronting the priest who banished the fairies from the forest is a painting by Alexander Ferrar which was uploaded on May 1st, 2017.
Joan of Arc confronting the priest who banished the fairies from the forest
It was a bitter day for us, that day that Père Fronte held the function under the tree and banished the fairies. Then that wise little child, Joan,... more
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Joan of Arc confronting the priest who banished the fairies from the forest
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Alexander Ferrar
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Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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It was a bitter day for us, that day that Père Fronte held the function under the tree and banished the fairies. Then that wise little child, Joan, went straight to Père Fronte, and stood up before him where he sat, and made reverence and said: “Who owns France?”
“God and the King.”
“Not Satan?”
“Satan, my child? This is the footstool of the Most High--Satan owns no handful of its soil.”
“Then who gave those poor creatures their home? God. Who protected them in it all those centuries? God. Who allowed them to dance and play there all those centuries and found no fault with it? God. Who disapproved of God's approval and put a threat upon them? A man. Who caught them again in harmless sports that God allowed and a man forbade, and carried out that threat, and drove the poor things away from the home the good God gave them in His mercy and His pity, and sent down His rain and dew and sunshine upon it five hundred years in token of His peace? It was their home--theirs, by the grace of God and His good heart, and no man had a right to rob them of it. And they were the gentlest, truest friends that children ever had, and did them sweet and loving service all these five long centuries, and never any hurt or harm; and the children loved them, and now they mourn for them, and there is no healing for their grief. And what had the children done that they should suffer this cruel stroke? The poor fairies could have been dangerous company for the children? Yes, but never had been; and could is no argument. Kinsmen of the Fiend? What of it? Kinsmen of the Fiend have rights, and these had; and children have rights, and these had; and if I had been there I would have spoken--I would have begged for the children and the fiends, and stayed your hand and saved them all. But now--oh, now, all is lost; everything is lost, and there is no help more! Poor little creatures!" she said. "What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!”
~ from "Joan of Arc" by Mark Twain
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May 1st, 2017
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