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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: History World history World history World history - Addresses, essays, lectures History / Europe / Great Britain History / World Fiction / Classics History / General History / World History / Modern / 20th Century Notes: This is a black and whit... More

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: History World history World history World history - Addresses, essays, lectures History / Europe / Great Britain History / World Fiction / Classics History / General History / World History / Modern / 20th Century Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV THE FALSE JEANNE D'ARC. Who that ever saw Jeanne d'Arc could mistake her for another woman ? No portrait of the Maid was painted from the life, but we know the light perfect figure, the black hair cut short like a soldier's, and we can imagine the face of her, who, says young Laval, writing to his mother after his first meeting with the deliverer of France, ' seemed a thing all divine.' Yet even two of her own brothers certainly recognised another girl as the Maid, five years after her death by fire. It is equally certain that, eight years after the martyrdom of Jeanne, an impostor dwelt for several days in Orleans, and was there publicly regarded as the heroine who raised the siege in 1429. Her family accepted the impostor for sixteen years. These facts rest on undoubted evidence. To unravel the threads of the story is a task very difficult. My table is strewn with pamphlets, papers, genealogies, essays; the authors taking opposite sides as to the question, Was Jeanne d'Arc burned at Rouen on May 30, 1431 ? Unluckilyeven the most exact historians (yea, even M. Quicherat, the editor of the five volumes of documents and notices about the Maid) (1841-1849) make slips in dates, where dates are all important. It would add confusion if we dwelt on these errors, or on the bias of the various disputants. Not a word was said at ...

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