Personal Recollections Of Joan
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
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I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. My family had fled to those distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of the century. In politics they were Armagnacs-patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. But the political atmosphere there was the sort he liked, and that was something. He came to a region of comparative quiet; he left behind him a region peopled with furies, madmen, devils, where slaughter was a daily pastime and no man's life safe for a moment. In Paris, mobs roared through the streets nightly, sacking, burning, killing, unmolested, uninterrupted. The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. None had the courage to gather these dead for burial; they were left there to rot and create plagues.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0898702682 |
This historical novel purportedly written by Joan's longtime friend -- Sieur Louis de Conte -- discloses Twain's unrestrained admiration for the French heroine's nobility of character.
Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 2014-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 2765902089 |
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte, who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The fictional work is presented as a translation from a manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France. Originally, Mark Twain's novel was published as a serialization in Harper's Magazine beginning in 1895 and it was published in book form in 1896. At Twain’s request, Harper's Magazine published it anonymously to avoid expectations for it to be humorous. This version includes new illustrations.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Hansebooks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783337498542 |
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2014-04-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781499106176 |
Volume 1 of 2. Mark Twain's Historical Novel on the life of Joan of Arc.
Author | : Régine Pernoud |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Christian saints |
ISBN | : 0812812603 |
An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.
Author | : Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Christian women saints |
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De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles' army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte's memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, "Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France". De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles' army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte's memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3301 |
Release | : 2018-01-27 |
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ISBN | : 2291073737 |