Joan of Arc

Date

c. 1412–1431

Description

City of birth: Domrémy
Country of birth (modern equivalence): France
Field of activity: Politics — military

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Quotes

‘Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. … She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.’

Author

Winston Churchiill

Speaker

Winston Churchiill

Title of the publication

History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1. The Birth of Britain

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Cassell & Co

City of publication

London

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United Kingdom

Publication date

1956

Location [pp. or web]

Book III, The End of the Feudal Age; Ch. IV, Joan of Arc

Other location

https://www.academia.edu/29734696/A_History_of_the_English_Speaking_Peoples_The_Birth_of_Britain_Winston_S._Churchill

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1940 to July 1945, when he led the country to victory in World War II, and again from October 1951 to April 1955. Sir Winston Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.

‘I have finished my story of Joan of Arc, that wonderful child, that sublime personality, that spirit which in one regard has had no peer and will have none — this: its purity from all alloy of self-seeking, self-interest, personal ambition. In it no trace of these motives can be found, search as you may, and this cannot be said of any other person whose name appears in profane history. With Joan of Arc love of country was more than a sentiment — it was a passion. She was the Genius of Patriotism — she was Patriotism embodied, concreted, made flesh and palpable to the touch and visible to the eye. Love, Mercy, Charity, Fortitude, War, Peace Poetry, Music — these may be symbolized as any shall prefer: by figures of either sex, of any age; but a slender girl in her first young bloom, with the martyr’s crown upon her head, and in her hand the sword that severed her country’s bonds — shall not this, and no other stand for PATRIOTISM for all the ages until time shall end.’

Author

Mark Twain

Speaker

Mark Twain

Title of the publication

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Other contributors

Frank DuMond, Illustrator

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Harper Brothers

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1896

Location [pp. or web]

Conclusion

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

Samuel Langhome Clemens (1835–1910) known by his literary pen name, Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist, he is widely considered one of the greatest American writers of all time. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was first published as a serialization in Harper’s Magazine beginning in April 1895. The conclusion sees the fictional biographer, Sieur Louis de Conte, end his presentation in the year 1492, where he is 82 years of age with a salute to the legacy of Joan of Arc, citing her impact on the country she loved so much.