The Life of Joan of Arc E-Book

Andrew Lang

• Herausgeber: Andrew Lang
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

JOAN OF ARC was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English.
Joan was the daughter of a poor man, in a little country village. She had never learned to read, or write, or mount a horse. Yet she was so wise that many learned men could not puzzle her by questions: she was one of the best riders in France; one of the most skilled in aiming cannons, and so great a general that she defeated the English again and again, and her army was never beaten till her King deserted her. She was so brave that severe wounds could not stop her from leading on her soldiers, and so tender-hearted that she would comfort the wounded English on the field of battle, and protect them from cruelty. She was so good that her enemies could not find one true story to tell against her in the least thing; and she was so modest that in the height of her glory she was wishing to be at home in her father's cottage, sewing or spinning beside her mother.

Leseprobe

Andrew Lang

UUID: 770b5aee-e1da-11e4-9581-1ba58673771c

This ebook was created with BackTypo (http://backtypo.com)by Simplicissimus Book Farm

Table of contents

CHAPTER I. THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC

CHAPTER II. HOW THE VOICES CAME TO THE MAID

CHAPTER III. HOW THE MAID OBEYED THE VOICES

CHAPTER IV. HOW JOAN HEARD NEWS STRANGELY

CHAPTER V. HOW THE MAID SAW THE DAUPHIN

CHAPTER VI. HOW THE MAID RODE TO ORLEANS

CHAPTER VII. HOW THE MAID SAVED ORLEANS

CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE MAID TOOK THE TOWN OF JARGEAU

CHAPTER IX. HOW JOAN DEFEATED THE ENGLISH IN FAIRFIELD

CHAPTER X. HOW JOAN LED THE DAUPHIN TO BE CROWNED

CHAPTER XI. HOW THE MAID WAS BETRAYED AT PARIS

CHAPTER XII. HOW THE MAID TOOK CERTAIN TOWNS

CHAPTER XIII. HOW THE VOICES PROPHESIED EVIL

CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE MAID WAS TAKEN

CHAPTER XV. THE CAPTIVITY OF THE MAID

CHAPTER XVI. THE TRIAL OF THE MAID

CHAPTER XVII. HOW THE PRIESTS BETRAYED THE MAID

CHAPTER XVIII. THE END OF THE MAID

CHAPTER XIX. THE SECOND TRIAL OF THE MAID

CHAPTER I. THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC