Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

8 July

Adrian III
(c. 830–885)
Pope
Eugenius III
(c. 1080–1151)
Pope
Kilian
(c. 640–690)
Bishop, Martyr, Missionary

On the Boulevard des Batignolles last Sunday night was a bicyclist who (walking) turned three times to look at me, then vanished. For my part this was a love I will never forget. Unhad love is sweeter.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The Paris Diary (1966)