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Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower. Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
Table of Contents
Preface
(SEVEN ETCHINGS, THREE PHOTO-ETCHINGS)
Joan of Arc
CHAPTER I.ToC
THE CALL
CHAPTER II
THE DELIVERY OF ORLEANS.ToC
CHAPTER IIIToC
THE CORONATION AT RHEIMS
CHAPTER IVToC
THE CAPTURE
CHAPTER VToC
IMPRISONMENT AND TRIAL
CHAPTER VIToC
MARTYRDOM
CHAPTER VIIToC
THE REHABILITATION
APPENDIXToC
No. I
JOAN OF ARC IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH HISTORY
No. II.ToC
JOAN OF ARC IN POETRY
FRENCH BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOAN OF ARC
ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOAN OF ARC
MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON JOAN OF ARC
INDEX
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Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Published by Good Press, 2019
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That imposing ruin on the banks of the river Vienne is even in its present abandoned state one of the grandest piles of mediæval building in the whole of France. Crowning the rich vale of Touraine, with the river winding below, and reflecting its castle towers in the still water, this time-honoured home of our Plantagenet kings has been not inaptly compared to Windsor. Beneath the castle walls and the river, nestles the quaint old town, in which are mediæval houses once inhabited by the court and followers of the French and English kings.
When Joan arrived at Chinon, Charles's affairs were in a very perilous state. The yet uncrowned King of France regarded the chances of being able to hold his own in France as highly problematical. He had doubts as to his legitimacy. Financially, so low were his affairs that even the turnspits in the palace were clamouring for their unpaid wages. The unfortunate monarch had already sold his jewels and precious trinkets. Even his clothes showed signs of poverty and patching, and to such a state of penury was he reduced that his bootmaker, finding that the King was unable to pay him the price of a new pair of boots, and not trusting the royal credit, refused to leave the new boots, and Charles had to wear out his old shoe-leather. All that remained in the way of money in the royal chest consisted of four gold 'écus.' To such a pitch of distress had the poor King, who was contemptuously called by the English the King of Bourges, sunken.
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