Joan of Arc: Her Story

By Régine Pernoud, Marie-Véronique Clin

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Joan of Arc: Her Story is a biography by French historians Régine Pernoud and Marie-Véronique Clin, translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Drawing closely on the records of her trial and of the rehabilitation trial that followed, it tells how a peasant girl from Domrémy came to lead French troops at Orléans, saw Charles VII crowned, and was captured, tried and burned. The book also includes reference sections on the people, places and documents of her story.

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