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Title: Jeanne d'Arc
Her Life And Death

Author: Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant

Release Date: March 28, 2006 [EBook #2553]

Language: English

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JEANNE D'ARC, HER LIFE AND DEATH

by Mrs. Oliphant

Author of "Makers of Florence," "Makers of Venice," etc.

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

PREPARER'S NOTE

The original book for this text was published as a volume in a
series "Heroes of the Nations," edited by Evelyn Abbot, M.H.,
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and published by G.P. Putnam's
Sons _The Knickerbocker Press_ in 1896. The title material
includes the note:

FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE
GLORIA RERUM--OVID, IN LIVIAM, 265.
THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WON
FAME SHALL LIVE.

CONTENTS:

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 -- COMPIEGNE. 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.

JEANNE D'ARC

CHAPTER I -- FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423.

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