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Mrs. Oliphant. Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
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TO COUSIN ANNIE (MRS. HARRY COGHILL)
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED IN LOVE OF OUR COMMON HEROINE. AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF LONG AND FAITHFUL. AFFECTION AND FRIENDSHIP
JEANNE D'ARC
CHAPTER I—FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412–1423
CHAPTER II—DOMREMY AND VAUCOULEURS. 1424–1429
CHAPTER III—BEFORE THE KING. FEB.-APRIL, 1429
CHAPTER IV—THE RELIEF OF ORLEANS. MAY 1–8, 1429
CHAPTER V—THE CAMPAIGN OF THE LOIRE. JUNE, JULY, 1429
CHAPTER VI—THE CORONATION. JULY 17, 1429
CHAPTER VII—THE SECOND PERIOD. 1429–1430
CHAPTER VIII—DEFEAT AND DISCOURAGEMENT. AUTUMN, 1429
CHAPTER IX—COMPIÈGNE. 1430
CHAPTER X—THE CAPTIVE. MAY, 1430-JAN., 1431
CHAPTER XI—THE JUDGES. 1431
CHAPTER XII—BEFORE THE TRIAL. LENT, 1431
CHAPTER XIII—THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION. FEBRUARY, 1431
CHAPTER XIV—THE EXAMINATION IN PRISON. LENT, 1431
CHAPTER XV—RE-EXAMINATION. MARCH-MAY, 1431
CHAPTER XVI—THE ABJURATION. MAY 24, 1431
CHAPTER XVIII—THE SACRIFICE. MAY 31, 1431
CHAPTER XVIII—AFTER
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Mrs. Oliphant
Published by Good Press, 2019
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We look at it at present, however, through the atmosphere of the nineteenth century, when France is all French, and when the royal house of England has no longer any French connection. If George III., much more George II., on the basis of his kingdom of Hanover, had attempted to make himself master of a large portion of Germany, the situation would have been more like that of Henry V. in France than anything we can think of now. It is true the kings of England were no longer dukes of Normandy—but they had been so within the memory of man: and that noble duchy was a hereditary appanage of the family of the Conqueror; while to other portions of France they had the link of temporary possession and inheritance through French wives and mothers; added to which is the fact that Jean sans Peur of Burgundy, thirsting to avenge his father's blood upon the Dauphin, would have been probably a more dangerous usurper than Henry, and that the actual sovereign, the unfortunate, mad Charles VI., was in no condition to maintain his own rights.
There is little evidence, however, that this treaty, or anything so distinct in detail, had made much impression on the outlying borders of France. What was known there, was only that the English were victorious, that the rightful King of France was still uncrowned and unacknowledged, and that the country was oppressed and humiliated under the foot of the invader. The fact that the new King was not yet the Lord's anointed, and had never received the seal of God, as it were, to his commission, was a fact which struck the imagination of the village as of much more importance than many greater things—being at once more visible and matter-of-fact, and of more mystical and spiritual efficacy than any other circumstance in the dreadful tale.
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