La Fete de Saint Germain

Jeanne d'Arc, on horseback, accompanied by an army of archers, halberd-bearers and trumpeters, made her annual triumphant entry into La Place Saint Suplice, Paris. This revived pageant of the middle ages is now an intrinsic part of La Fete de Saint Germain.

Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France."

The Saint Germain Fair is one of the oldest in the country and was a regular event in the days of Jeanne d'Arc. It was within recent years revived by the Committee of old Paris and the municipal authorities of the Latin Quarter. Ever since the canonization of Jeanne d'Arc, in 1918, the Fair has been more warmly welcomed than ever by the Parisians.