Quotes:Hachette, Jeanne

Zirkoff, Boris

Hachette, Jeanne (alias for Jeanne Laisne, or Fourquet). French heroine, bom about 1454, and known solely for her act of heroism when, on June 27, 1472, she saved her native city of Beauvais from being captured by Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy. In hurling hatchets at Burgundian men-of-arms and tearing down their flag, she revived the drooping courage of the garrison, and won favors from Louis XI, who instituted a procession of the Assault in honor of the event. (Cf. George Vallat, Jeanne Hachette, Abbeville, 1898.)

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 531