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Edward
Lucie-Smith.
Joan of Arc.
Harmondsworth:
Penguin,
2000.
Classic
Biography series.
xiv,327pp.
Paperback, ISBN
014139000X.
Publisher's
recommended price £4.99
Joan of
Arc (?1412-31)
has a unique power to fire the imagination. From her sudden burst upon
the scene in the spring of 1429 to her humiliating execution at the
stake
in Rouen in 1431, she achieved astonishing feats that changed the
history
of the kingdom of France. Edward Lucie-Smith charts the action of her
brief
life - the journey from rural Lorraine to the tensions of the Dauphin's
Court, the siege of Orléans, the Coronation in Reims, and Joan's
trial and execution - provides a full and humanitarian biography of the
Maid of Orleans.
In
spite of the
fact that Joan of Arc is one of the best documented people of the
Middle
Ages, Edward Lucie Smith has - by 'listening to all the witnesses',
including
Joan herself, Joan's contemporaries, the chroniclers and all who were
able
to preserve fragments of her career - been able to recreate the life of
one of the most remarkable women of Western Europe. This Classic
Penguin
is a reissue of a book first published in 1976.
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