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Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death
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JEANNE D'ARC ***
Produced by Dagny; and John Bickers JEANNE D'ARC, HER LIFE AND DEATH by Mrs. Oliphant Author of "Makers of Florence," "Makers of Venice," etc. TO COUSIN ANNIE (MRS. HARRY COGHILL) THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED IN LOVE OF OUR COMMON HEROINE AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF LONG AND FAITHFUL AFFECTION AND FRIENDSHIP PREPARER'S NOTE The original book for this text was published as a volume in a series "Heroes of the Nations," edited by Evelyn Abbot, M.H., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons _The Knickerbocker Press_ in 1896. The title material includes the note: FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM--OVID, IN LIVIAM, 265. THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME SHALL LIVE. CONTENTS: CHAPTER I - FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423. CHAPTER II - DOMREMY AND VAUCOULEURS. 1424-1429. CHAPTER III - BEFORE THE KING. FEB.-APRIL, 1429. CHAPTER IV - THE RELIEF OF ORLEANS. MAY 1-8, 1429. CHAPTER V - THE CAMPAIGN OF THE LOIRE. JUNE, JULY, 1429. CHAPTER VI - THE CORONATION. JULY 17, 1429. CHAPTER VII - THE SECOND PERIOD. 1429-1430. CHAPTER VIII - DEFEAT AND DISCOURAGEMENT. AUTUMN, 1429. CHAPTER IX - COMPIÈGNE. 1430. CHAPTER X - THE CAPTIVE. MAY, 1430-JAN., 1431. CHAPTER XI - THE JUDGES. 1431. CHAPTER XII - BEFORE THE TRIAL. LENT, 1431. CHAPTER XIII - THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION. FEBRUARY, 1431. CHAPTER XIV -THE EXAMINATION IN PRISON. LENT, 1431. CHAPTER XV - RE-EXAMINATION. MARCH-MAY, 1431. CHAPTER XVI - THE ABJURATION. MAY 24, 1431. CHAPTER XVIII - THE SACRIFICE. MAY 31, 1431. CHAPTER XVIII - AFTER. JEANNE D'ARC CHAPTER I -- FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423. It is no small effort for the mind, even of the most well-informed, how much more of those whose exact knowledge is not great (which is the case with most readers, and alas! with most writers also), to transport itself out of this nineteenth century which we know so thoroughly, and which has trained us in all our present habits and modes of thought, into the fifteenth, four hundred years back in time, and worlds apart in every custom and action of life. What is there indeed the same in the two ages? Nothing but the man and the woman, the living agents in spheres so different; nothing but love and grief, the affections and the sufferings by which humanity is ruled and of which it is capable. Everything else is changed: the customs of life, and its methods, and even its motives, the ruling principles of its continuance. Peace and mutual consideration, the policy which even in its selfish developments is so far good that it enables men to live together, making existence possible,--scarcely existed in those days. The highest ideal was that of war, war no doubt sometimes for good ends, to redress wrongs, to avenge injuries, to make crooked things straight--but yet always war, implying a state of affairs in which the last thing that men thought of was the golden rule, and the highest attainment to be looked for was the position of a pr... Show full text: 642,998 characters
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