Place du Martroi, Orléans
“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
27 January
There but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. [in response to being told that people gathered around a washtub at a Hallowe’en party given by newspaper editor Herbert Byard Swope were ‘ducking for apples’]
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
American writer and poet
as quoted in John Keats—You Might As Well Live (1970)


