A FRENCH SEER
4 THE STORY OF CLAIRE FERCHAUD. In tlie course of_ his war lecture in the Town Hall last night the Hon. T. M. Wiliord made reference to the modern Joan of Arc, Claire Ferchaud, "This young girl,i 22 years of age, a peasant, was born in hilly, wooded country, which makes for meditation, in the Parish of Loublaude," he said. "You reach there from the railway sta-_ tion' of Cliolet, close to the border of' Vendee. She is the seer ar.d the prophetess of the war—a deeply relfgious girl .who lias written works_ worthy of St. Therese. "At the end of 1936 she announced to France that some otf lier most powerful politicians were plotting against her, but prophesied that they would sneedily be" punished. The prosecution of tho 'Bonnet Rouge' gang, tho execution of 8010 and the imprisonment of Malvy and that arch-traitor G'aillaux followed. She warned the French generals that their front would be pierced when it was pierced. They all had nnuounced that it would hold. The Bishop of Poitiers and tho Archbishop of Bordeaux have proclaimed her prophecies. President Poincare met her, and a French general who won fame at Verduu went to Loublaii'ln to consnjt her. M. Clemenceau, the present rj cinch Premier, met her. Sho asked liim to recall General M , wli'o had been in disgrac9. and give him his command back, and he would make good. . General M- was given his command, aud stopped the Boclio at Coiiiniegne. She prophesied that,the Italians would annihilate the Austrians at the Piave River and save Venice. Tlr's has ooto true. &>ldiers swear H her: puicrals consult her;, and France awiiits her pronouncement with everv interest; 'vhilo - the Loublaude I';>r»l| has l-tco;i:e a place of pilgrimage." '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 8
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292A FRENCH SEER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 8
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