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CONTENTS Cover About the Book About the Author Also by Vita Sackville-West Dedication Title Page Epigraph Foreword 1 Jeanne d’Arc 2 The Hundred Years’ War 3 Domremy (1) 4 Domremy (2) 5 Domremy and Vaucouleurs (1) 6 Domremy and Vaucouleurs (2) 7 Vaucouleurs to Chinon 8 Poitiers to Orleans 9 Orleans (1) 10 Orleans (2) 11 Reims 12 Reims to Paris 13 Paris to Compiègne 14 Compiègne to Rouen 15 The Trial (1) 16 The Trial (2) 17 The Last Act 18 Aftermath Appendices Chronological Table MAPS (by J. F. Horrabin) The France of Jeanne d’Arc The Loire country Orleans Compiègne Bibliography Index Copyright ABOUT THE BOOK The strange story of Joan of Arc, the obscure peasant girl who became the national saint of France, is retold in this celebrated, classic biography. Saint Joan lives for the reader on every page, as a shepherd girl in a remote part of fifteenth-century rural France, visited by visions of saints and angels; as the avenging virgin who regenerated the soul of a torn and wretched France and led her troops to victory; and as a condemned heretic and witch, burned at the stake and, five hundred years later, canonised as a saint. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively before settling at Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, where she devoted much of her time to creating its now world-famous garden. Throughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men and women, and her unconventional marriage would later become the subject of a biography written by her son Nigel Nicolson. Though she produced a substantial body of work, amongst which are writings on travel and gardening, Sackville-West is best known for her novels The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931), and for the pastoral poem The Land (1926) which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. She died in 1962 at Sissinghurst. ALSO BY VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Novels Family History Heritage The Dragon in Shallow Waters The Heir Challenge Seducers in Ecuador The Edwardians All Passion Spent Grand Canyon Non-Fiction Passenger to Teheran English Country Houses Pepita The Eagle and The Dove Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden For PHILIPPA ‘[And it was shown to her] how serious and dangerous it is curiously to examine the things which are beyond one’s understanding, and to believe in new things … and even to invent new and unusual things, for demons have a way of introducing themselves into such-like curiosities.’ ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOAN OF ARC. Procés de condamnation, Vol. 1, p. 390. ‘Pauvre Jeanne d’Arc! Elle a eu bien du malheur dans ce que sa mémoire a provoqué d’écrits et de compositions de diverses sortes.’ SAINTE BEUVE.
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