Joan of Arc
Subtitle: her story
By: Régine Pernoud, Marie-Véronique Clin ; translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams ; edited by Bonnie Wheeler
Contributors: Clin, Marie-Véronique; Adams, Jeremy duQuesnay; Wheeler, Bonnie, 1944-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Christian women saints; Biography; History
Work titles: Jeanne d'Arc
Description: The story of Joan of Arc has fascinated readers for centuries. As a young girl in rural France, Joan heard the voices of Saints Catherine, Margaret, and Michael telling her that the dauphin was God's choice for the throne of France. Unquestioningly, Joan left her family to lead the army of the dauphin against the English and defeated them, thereby putting Charles VII on the throne.

From the image of an obscure French peasant girl who led the army of the dauphin, to the icon of a saint burned at the stake by an English-controlled church, Joan has been a blank slate on which thousands have written their obsessions, their fears, and their hopes. In Adams's magisterial translation, Pernoud and Clin clear away the myths, allowing modern readers to see Joan as she was.

Adams has added a great deal of material not in the original French edition, including a new preface and additional entries to the glossary, which provides portraits of the important historical figures that affected Joan as well as synopses of the historical occurrences and interpretations of Joan through the ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-294) and index.