PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC

Mark Twain

CONTENTS

 

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

A PECULIARITY OF JOAN OF ARC’S HISTORY

THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE

BOOK I IN DOMREMY

Chapter 1 When Wolves Ran Free in Paris

Chapter 2 The Fairy Tree of Domremy

Chapter 3 All Aflame with Love of France

Chapter 4 Joan Tames the Mad Man

Chapter 5 Domremy Pillaged and Burned

Chapter 6 Joan and Archangel Michael

Chapter 7 She Delivers the Divine Command

Chapter 8 Why the Scorners Relented

BOOK II IN COURT AND CAMP

Chapter 1 Joan Says Good-By

Chapter 2 The Governor Speeds Joan

Chapter 3 The Paladin Groans and Boasts

Chapter 4 Joan Leads Us Through the Enemy

Chapter 5 We Pierce the Last Ambuscades

Chapter 6 Joan Convinces the King

Chapter 7 Our Paladin in His Glory

Chapter 8 Joan Persuades Her Inquisitors

Chapter 9 She Is Made General-in-Chief

Chapter 10 The Maid’s Sword and Banner

Chapter 11 The War March Is Begun

Chapter 12 Joan Puts Heart in Her Army

Chapter 13 Checked by the Folly of the Wise

Chapter 14 What the English Answered

Chapter 15 My Exquisite Poem Goes to Smash

Chapter 16 The Finding of the Dwarf

Chapter 17 Sweet Fruit of Bitter Truth

Chapter 18 Joan’s First Battle-Field

Chapter 19 We Burst In Upon Ghosts

Chapter 20 Joan Makes Cowards Brave Victors

Chapter 21 She Gently Reproves Her Dear Friend

Chapter 22 The Fate of France Decided

Chapter 23 Joan Inspires the Tawdry King

Chapter 24 Tinsel Trappings of Nobility

Chapter 25 At Last — Forward!

Chapter 26 The Last Doubts Scattered

Chapter 27 How Joan Took Jargeau

BOOK II — IN COURT AND CAMP (Continued)

Chapter 28 Joan Foretells Her Doom

Chapter 29 Fierce Talbot Reconsiders

Chapter 30 The Red Field of Patay

Chapter 31 France Begins to Live Again

Chapter 32 The Joyous News Flies Fast

Chapter 33 Joan’s Five Great Deeds

Chapter 34 The Jests of the Burgundians

Chapter 35 The Heir of France is Crowned

Chapter 36 Joan Hears News from Home

Chapter 37 Again to Arms

Chapter 38 The King Cries “Forward!”

Chapter 39 We Win, But the King Balks

Chapter 40 Treachery Conquers Joan

Chapter 41 The Maid Will March No More

BOOK III TRIAL AND MARTYRDOM

Chapter 1 The Maid in Chains

Chapter 2 Joan Sold to the English

Chapter 3 Weaving the Net About Her

Chapter 4 All Ready to Condemn

Chapter 5 Fifty Experts Against a Novice

Chapter 6 The Maid Baffles Her Persecutors

Chapter 7 Craft That Was in Vain

Chapter 8 Joan Tells of Her Visions

Chapter 9 Her Sure Deliverance Foretold

Chapter 10 The Inquisitors at Their Wits’ End

Chapter 11 The Court Reorganized for Assassination

Chapter 12 Joan’s Master-Stroke Diverted

Chapter 13 The Third Trial Fails

Chapter 14 Joan Struggles with Her Twelve Lies

Chapter 15 Undaunted by Threat of Burning

Chapter 16 Joan Stands Defiant Before the Rack

Chapter 17 Supreme in Direst Peril

Chapter 18 Condemned Yet Unafraid

Chapter 19 Our Last Hopes of Rescue Fail

Chapter 20 The Betrayal

Chapter 21 Respited Only for Torture

Chapter 22 Joan Gives the Fatal Answer

Chapter 23 The Time Is at Hand

Chapter 24 Joan the Martyr

 

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