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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
Nov 17, 2010 · --Mark Twain Joan of Arc is the lone example that history affords of an actual, real embodiment of all the virtues demonstrated by Huck and Jim and of all that Twain felt to be noble in man, Joan is the ideal toward which mankind strives. Twain had to tell her story because she is the sole concrete argument against the pessimistic doctrines of ...
- Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old.The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes.
Sep 1, 2005 · Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 01 Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Fiction Subject: France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461 -- Fiction Subject: Biographical fiction Subject: Christian women saints -- Fiction Category ...
Sep 20, 1995 · Instead it purported to be a translation, by "Jean François Alden," of an original unpublished manuscript dating from 1492, the "Personal Recollections" of an 82-year-old man, Le Sieur Louis de Conte, telling of his experiences as the childhood companion of Joan of Arc (1412-1431).
Jean François Alden is the author of Joan of Arc (4.11 avg rating, 8631 ratings, 1189 reviews, published 1896), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - V...
About the original publication of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: When the book was originally published as a serial in Harper's Magazine with the April 1895 issue, it was unsigned and the public generally assumed that it was a translation done by Jean François Alden of the memoirs of Sieur Louis de Conte, a friend and constant ...
