Dimensions
136 x 215 x 25mm
Joan of Arc (?1419-31) has a unique power to fire the imagination. From her sudden burst upon the scene in the spring of 1429 to her humiliating execution at the stake in Rouen in 1431, she achieved astonishing feats that changed the history of the kingdom of France. Edward Lucie-Smith charts the action of her brief life the journey from rural Lorraine to the tensions of the Dauphin's Court, the siege of Orleans, the Coronation in Reims and Joan's trial and execution and provides a full and humanitarian biography of the Maid of Orleans.
