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Jeanne d'Arc Her Life and Death
by Mrs. Oliphant Author of "Makers of Florence," "Makers of Venice,"
etc.

TO
COUSIN ANNIE (MRS. HARRY COGHILL)
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED IN LOVE OF OUR COMMON
HEROINE AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF LONG AND FAITHFUL
AFFECTION AND FRIENDSHIP

PREPARER'S NOTE
The original book for this text was published as a volume in a series
"Heroes of the Nations," edited by Evelyn Abbot, M.H., Fellow of
Balliol College, Oxford, and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons / The
Knickerbocker Press in 1896. The title material includes the note:
FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM--OVID,
IN LIVIAM, 265. THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME
SHALL LIVE.

JEANNE D'ARC

CHAPTER I
FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423.
It is no small effort for the mind, even of the most well-informed, how
much more of those whose exact knowledge is not great (which is the
case with most readers, and alas! with most writers also), to transport
itself out of this nineteenth century which we know so thoroughly, and
which has trained us in all our present habits and modes of thought,
into the fifteenth, four hundred years back in time, and worlds apart in
every custom and action of life. What is there indeed the same in the
two ages? Nothing but the man and the woman, the living agents in
spheres so different; nothing but love and grief, the affections and the
sufferings by which humanity is ruled and of which it is capable.
Everything else is changed: the customs of life, and its methods, and
even its motives, the ruling principles of its continuance. Peace and
mutual consideration, the policy which even in its selfish developments
is so far good that it enables men to live together, making existence
possible,--scarcely existed in those days. The highest ideal was that of
war, war no doubt sometimes for good ends, to redress wrongs, to
avenge injuries, to make crooked things straight--but yet always war,
implying a state of affairs in which the last thing that men thought of
was the golden rule, and the highest attainment to be looked for was the
position of a protector, doer of justice, deliverer of the oppressed. Our