{"product_id":"personal-recollections-of-joan-of-arc-paperback-2","title":"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essential facts regarding \u003cstrong\u003eJoan of Arc\u003c\/strong\u003e are well known. A young teenage girl hears voices that tell her she will deliver France from England's oppression during the \u003cstrong\u003eHundred Years\u003c\/strong\u003e War. She manages to take her message to the dauphin, who after some persuasion places her at the head of his army. That army promptly lifts the siege of Orléans, throws the English out of the Loire valley, hands them another significant defeat at Patay, and marches all the way to Reims, where the dauphin is crowned \u003cstrong\u003eKing Charles\u003c\/strong\u003e VII. After an ill-advised and short-lived truce, \u003cstrong\u003eJoan\u003c\/strong\u003e is captured by the Burgundians-French nobility who have aligned themselves with the English-and they try her for heresy and burn her at the stake.Twain first became fascinated with \u003cstrong\u003eJoan\u003c\/strong\u003e as a teenager. When he finally decided to write a book about her, he researched it for a dozen years and spent two more years writing it. It was, in his words, \"the best of all my books,\" and became his last finished novel. Although a work of fiction, Twain's research was time well spent: the known facts of \u003cstrong\u003eJoan\u003c\/strong\u003e's life, and especially the trial, are very accurate in their depiction. To tell \u003cstrong\u003eJoan\u003c\/strong\u003e's story, Twain invented a memoirist, \u003cstrong\u003eLouis de Conte\u003c\/strong\u003e, a fictionalized version of her real-life page, \u003cstrong\u003eLouis de Contes\u003c\/strong\u003e. Twain has the fictional \u003cstrong\u003ede\u003c\/strong\u003e Conte grow up with \u003cstrong\u003eJoan\u003c\/strong\u003e, and so he is able to tell her story from her early childhood all the way through the trial and execution. The result is the story of one of the great women in history told by one of history's great storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 550\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45819210891366,"sku":"9791043135927","price":49.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/JIGHowE7ji9791043135927.webp?v=1781691070","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/personal-recollections-of-joan-of-arc-paperback-2","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}