Front matter
Reading edition
Pictures By J. Jellicoe
1906
Original
Original
TO
ANGELA COTTRELL-DORMER
Dear Angela,
May I dedicate this little book to you, who are already a friend of the Maid?
As you grow up you will meet certain wise people who will tell you that there was never any such person as Joan of Arc, or that, if she ever lived, she was mad, or an impostor. If you ask them how they know that, they will probably reply that Science is the source of their information. You can then answer that you prefer to begin with History, and ask these wise people if they have read even so much as Monsieur Quicherat’s five volumes containing the Trial of Joan, and the evidence of her friends and enemies who knew her in her lifetime? As the books are in Latin and Old French, the people who speak about Joan disrespectfully have not read them, and do not know what they are talking about.
“They say: What say they? Let them say!”
Affectionately yours,
A. LANG.
CONTENTS
THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC
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