Identifier: storyhistoryoffr01bonn (find matches)
Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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day, as she was besieging the town of Com-piegne, her men-at-arms took fright and ran away, leavingher alone, whereupon a Burgundian archer threw her fromher horse and made her his prisoner. A roar of joy rosefrom the troops over the capture of this young girl. Theman who took her sold her to John of Luxembourg ; hesold her to the Duke of Burgundy; he sold her to theEnglish. Now, said Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop nf Winchester,with set teeth and an ugly flash in his eye, I dont thinkJoan of Arc will give me any more trouble. They put the poor girl in irons and dragged her to Rouen,which was in possession of the English, to stand her trialfor sorcery. As you know, the only sorcery she had beenguilty of was putting fresh heart into the down-spiritedpeople of France. But a court was summoned, with theBishop of Beauvais at its head, a vicar of the Inquisitionat his side, and a score of priests to sit as judges—all ofthem sworn to do the dirty work of Cardinal Beaufort,Bishop of Winchester,
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JOAN OF ARC IN BATTLE Before thi8 court, for sixteen days, Joan had to appear,and to ansvver all kinds of cruel and absurd questions. Shewas sick and broken down. Every night the poor girl wastaken to her cell in the dungeon, where she was made tosleep with double chains around her limbs. Her feet werefastened to a chain at the foot of her bed, and, to keep herstraight, her body was tied to an iron beam. Here tor-turers visited her and warned her that she would probablybe put to the torture on the day following. She was not,but she suffered the agonies of torture in expectation. She10 146 (1429-1431 had no friends, no advisers; the mean King of Francenever stirred hand nor spoke word to save her. The trial had begun on the 21st of February, 1431. OnMay 31, at eight in the morning, she was taken out of herprison and placed in a cart with a confessor by her side.Eight hundred English soldiers, with swords drawn andlances in rest, escorted the cart. Ten thousand people linedthe streets t

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