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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... MISSion AnnounceD . JEANNE At Neufchâteau VI . THE SIEGE OF ORLEANS BEGUN VII . JEANNE'S Second Visit to Vaucouleurs VIII . CHINON . THE KING'S SECRET IX . THE NEW ST . CATHERINE AT POITIERS X. JEANNE AT TOURS . MARCH TO ORLEANS XI ...
... MISSion AnnounceD . JEANNE At Neufchâteau VI . THE SIEGE OF ORLEANS BEGUN VII . JEANNE'S Second Visit to Vaucouleurs VIII . CHINON . THE KING'S SECRET IX . THE NEW ST . CATHERINE AT POITIERS X. JEANNE AT TOURS . MARCH TO ORLEANS XI ...
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... , of this rustic girl , who determined , alone , to fulfil her dream . But she undertook her mission , not only with the clearest conviction * of her own personal impotence , - " I am THE MAID AND THEORIES ABOUT HER 3.
... , of this rustic girl , who determined , alone , to fulfil her dream . But she undertook her mission , not only with the clearest conviction * of her own personal impotence , - " I am THE MAID AND THEORIES ABOUT HER 3.
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... mission was not of her own invention , conscious or sub - conscious , but was im- agined and imposed on her by fraudulent priests , who , appar- ently , understood the military situation and the needs of France better than Dunois and de ...
... mission was not of her own invention , conscious or sub - conscious , but was im- agined and imposed on her by fraudulent priests , who , appar- ently , understood the military situation and the needs of France better than Dunois and de ...
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... mission , and pulled the strings of the clever puppet . Our knowledge of history makes this last opinion untenable . It is now held by none ; but as we see , it has recently been re- vived in a modified form . The old explanation of ...
... mission , and pulled the strings of the clever puppet . Our knowledge of history makes this last opinion untenable . It is now held by none ; but as we see , it has recently been re- vived in a modified form . The old explanation of ...
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... mission must be military , and replied that she could not fight and lead men - at - arms . But , yielding to the monitions of her Voices , she took up a mission pro . fessedly warlike . When she left Vaucouleurs on February 23 , 1429 ...
... mission must be military , and replied that she could not fight and lead men - at - arms . But , yielding to the monitions of her Voices , she took up a mission pro . fessedly warlike . When she left Vaucouleurs on February 23 , 1429 ...
Contents
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58 | |
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.