Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1

Opening of the book

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF

JOAN OF ARC

VOLUME 1 (of 2) By Mark Twain

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Consider this unique and imposing distinction. Since the writing of human history began, Joan of Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeen

LOUIS KOSSUTH.

CONTENTS

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF

JOAN OF ARC

By The Sieur Louis De Conte

(her page and secretary)

In Two Volumes

Volume 1.

Freely translated out of the ancient French into modern English from the original unpublished manuscript in the National Archives of

France

By Jean Francois Alden

Authorities examined in verification of the truthfulness of this narrative:

J. E. J. QUICHERAT, Condamnation et Rehabilitation de Jeanne d’Arc.

J. FABRE, Proces de Condamnation de Jeanne d’Arc.

H. A. WALLON, Jeanne d’Arc.

M. SEPET, Jeanne d’Arc.

J. MICHELET, Jeanne d’Arc.

BERRIAT DE SAINT-PRIX, La Famille de Jeanne d’Arc.

La Comtesse A. DE CHABANNES, La Vierge Lorraine.

Monseigneur RICARD, Jeanne d’Arc la Venerable.

Lord RONALD GOWER, F.S.A., Joan of Arc. JOHN O’HAGAN, Joan of Arc.

JANET TUCKEY, Joan of Arc the Maid.

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of their luster; judged by the standards of to-day, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose

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