Book
The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc
by Andrew Lang
- Published
- 1909
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 379
- Words
- 147269
- URL
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Maid_of_France/iQyfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–15
- Ambleside year
- Year 7 onwards · ages 12–15
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Andrew Lang's life of Joan of Arc, from the village of Domrémy and the voices, through the winter journey to the court at Chinon in Lent 1429, the relief of Orléans and the campaign that followed, to the trial at Rouen and the burning. Lang wrote from the sources and tried to leave both the legend and the debunking aside, which is what makes his plain account of her, and of the men who used her, still worth reading.
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