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Title: A Heroine of France

Author: Evelyn Everett-Green

Release Date: September 19, 2004 [eBook #13500]

Language: English

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A HEROINE OF FRANCE

The Story of Joan of Arc

by

EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN

Contents

CHAPTER I. HOW I FIRST HEARD OF THE MAID.

CHAPTER II. HOW I FIRST SAW THE MAID.

CHAPTER III. HOW THE MAID CAME TO VAUCOULEURS.

CHAPTER IV. HOW THE MAID WAS TRIED AND TESTED.

CHAPTER V. HOW THE MAID JOURNEYED TO CHINON.

CHAPTER VI. HOW THE MAID CAME TO THE KING.

CHAPTER VII. HOW THE MAID WAS HINDERED; YET MADE PREPARATION.

CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE MAID MARCHED FOR ORLEANS.

CHAPTER IX. HOW THE MAID ASSUMED COMMAND AT ORLEANS.

CHAPTER X. HOW THE MAID LED US INTO BATTLE.

CHAPTER XI. HOW THE MAID BORE TRIUMPH AND TROUBLE.

CHAPTER XII. HOW THE MAID RAISED THE SIEGE.

CHAPTER XIII. HOW THE MAID WON A NEW NAME.

CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE MAID CLEARED THE KING'S WAY.

CHAPTER XV. HOW THE MAID RODE WITH THE KING.

CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE MAID ACCOMPLISHED HER MISSION.

CHAPTER XVII. HOW THE MAID WAS PERSUADED.

CHAPTER XVIII. HOW I LAST SAW THE MAID.

CHAPTER I. HOW I FIRST HEARD OF THE MAID.

"The age of Chivalry--alas!--is dead. The days of miracles are past
and gone! What future is there for hapless France? She lies in the
dust. How can she hope to rise?"

Sir Guy de Laval looked full in our faces as he spoke these words,
and what could one reply? Ah me!--those were sad and sorrowful days
for France--and for those who thought upon the bygone glories of
the past, when she was mistress of herself, held high her head, and
was a power with hostile nations. What would the great Charlemagne
say, could he see us now? What would even St. Louis of blessed
memory feel, could he witness the changes wrought by only a century
and a half? Surely it were enough to cause them to turn in their
graves! The north lyin