Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Originally published as a serialization in Harper's Magazine in 1895, this historical work of fiction is by American author Mark Twain. At his request, the magazine published it anonymously to avoid expectations for it to be a humorous account. The 1896 book version is presented as a translation of the memoir of Sieur Louis de Conte, which was supposedly written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants. De Conte is presented as an individual who served as Joan's page during the three major phases of her life - as a young girl in Domremy, as the commander of the army of Charles VII of France on a military campaign, and as a defendant at her trial in Rouen. Twain based his descriptions of Joan of Arc on his daughter, Susy Clemens, as he remembered her at the age of 17.



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