The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne D' Arc1909. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. In this work, Lang gives both the believer's and the skeptic's side as to the explanation of Joan of Arc's experiences. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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... Dunois " must have been mis- handled by the translator and the scribes , " as when he speaks of " the strong force of the enemy . " But Bedford , the English commander - in - chief , also says that the Eng- lish at Orleans were numerous ...
... Dunois " must have been mis- handled by the translator and the scribes , " as when he speaks of " the strong force of the enemy . " But Bedford , the English commander - in - chief , also says that the Eng- lish at Orleans were numerous ...
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... Dunois overestimated them , how often , in the South African war , did our leaders make the same mistake as to the enemy ! The other sins of Dunois are either no sins at all , or are easily pardonable , and the burden of them need not ...
... Dunois overestimated them , how often , in the South African war , did our leaders make the same mistake as to the enemy ! The other sins of Dunois are either no sins at all , or are easily pardonable , and the burden of them need not ...
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... Dunois . We hear from them of no miracles attributed to Jeanne , though Dunois obviously regarded the fortunate change of the wind on the Loire , on April 28 , 1429 , as verging on miracle . Pasquerel exaggerated its effects ; and also ...
... Dunois . We hear from them of no miracles attributed to Jeanne , though Dunois obviously regarded the fortunate change of the wind on the Loire , on April 28 , 1429 , as verging on miracle . Pasquerel exaggerated its effects ; and also ...
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... Dunois did not draw the inference which the Maid drew , and lacked , by his own honest confession , the heart and confidence of the Maid . ( 6 She derived her confidence from her perfect faith in the monitions of her Voices ( a source ...
... Dunois did not draw the inference which the Maid drew , and lacked , by his own honest confession , the heart and confidence of the Maid . ( 6 She derived her confidence from her perfect faith in the monitions of her Voices ( a source ...
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... Dunois and de Gaucourt ! This also is no new theory . In 1435 , four years after her martyrdom , Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini , later Pope Pius II , was present at the negotiations for the Treaty of Arras , which reconciled France and ...
... Dunois and de Gaucourt ! This also is no new theory . In 1435 , four years after her martyrdom , Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini , later Pope Pius II , was present at the negotiations for the Treaty of Arras , which reconciled France and ...
Contents
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JEANNES Second Visit to Vaucouleurs | 64 |
CHINON THE KINGS SECRET | 73 |
CHAP PAGE | 273 |
52 | 297 |
58 | 304 |
73 | 307 |
95 | 310 |
106 | 314 |
116 | 319 |
125 | 321 |
THE NEW ST CATHERINE AT POITIERS | 88 |
JEANNE AT TOURS MARCH TO ORLEANS | 95 |
THE MAIDS VICTORIES AT ORLEANS | 106 |
THE TAKING OF THE TOURELLES | 116 |
AFTER ORLEANS | 125 |
THE Week of VictORIES | 138 |
THE RIDE TO REIMS | 150 |
THE Campaign of Dupes | 165 |
THE FAILURE AT PARIS | 179 |
THE AUTUMN CAMPAIGN | 188 |
JEANNES LAST CAMPAIGN | 198 |
THE LAST DAY UNDer Arms | 207 |
CAPTIVITY | 215 |
138 | 324 |
150 | 326 |
165 | 328 |
179 | 329 |
188 | 330 |
198 | 331 |
207 | 332 |
215 | 333 |
THE TRIALI | 338 |
242 | 343 |
252 | 347 |
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abjuration Ambleville Anatole France angel Aperçus Nouveaux April Archbishop of Reims army asked attack avers Ayroles Baudricourt Beaucourt Bede Bedford Blois Bourgeois de Paris Burgundian Cagny captains Catherine Cauchon Charles de Bourbon Charles VII Chartier Chinon Chronique d'Antonio Morosini Church Compiègne confession d'Alençon d'Arc à Domremy d'Aulon d'Orléans Dauphin Domremy Duke of Burgundy Dunand Dunois English evidence Fastolf February Fierbois force French garrison girl gold crowns Guillaume de Flavy heard Histoire de Charles Ibid Jargeau Jean de Novelonpont Jeanne d'Arc Jeanne's Journal d'un Bourgeois Journal du Siège judges King King's knew La Hire Lefèvre-Pontalis letter line 14 line 19 line 24 line 30 Loire Lord Maid Maid's March Massieu men-at-arms Merlin Monstrelet Neufchâteau night numbers Orleans Pasquerel Poitiers priests Procès prophecy Pucelle Quicherat Rouen Saints says sent siege Siméon Luce sword Talbot told Tourelles town Trémoïlle trial Troyes Vaucouleurs Vie de Jeanne visions Voices
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Page 49 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 26 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 124 - ... themselves. He was passing for this purpose across the drawbridge that connected the Tourelles and the tete-du-pont, when Joan, who by this time had scaled the wall of the bulwark, called out to him, "Surrender! surrender to the King of Heaven! Ah, Glacidas, you have foully wronged me with your words, but I have great pity on your soul and the souls of your men.
Page 258 - Again, out of her native wisdom, she had brought those words of tremendous import, but was ignorant of their value. But they could have availed her nothing in any case now, with the stake there and these thousands of enemies about her.
Page 91 - I did not come to Poitiers to work miracles! Take me to Orleans, and I will show you the signs of my sending; give me few men or many, and I go.
Page 14 - To reject abundance of sworn evidence because it conflicts with a critic's personal idea of what is probable or possible is not the method of history, and will not be adopted in this book. Much less will I reject, for instance, the evidence of Jeanne herself on any point, and give a fanciful theory of my own as to what really occurred. If there are incidents in her career which science, so far, cannot explain, I shall not therefore regard them as false. Science may be able to explain them on some...
Page 252 - Thought" and the liberty of private opinion. She was as sound a Catholic as man or woman could be, in matters of faith; she was only forced by injustice into maintaining her freedom of opinion in matters of fact, of personal experience; and clerks as learned as they of Rouen maintain that this attitude was perfectly orthodox.
Page 5 - A girl understood, and a girl employed (so professional students of strategy and tactics declare), the essential ideas of the military art ; namely, to concentrate quickly, to strike swiftly, to strike hard, to strike at vital points, and, despising vain noisy skirmishes and " valiances," to fight with invincible tenacity of purpose.
Page 163 - Gentle King, now is accomplished the Will of God, who decreed that I should raise the siege of Orleans and bring you to the city of Reims to receive your solemn sacring, thereby showing that you are the true King, and that France should be yours.' "And right great pity came upon all those who saw her, and many wept.