Dec 31, 2009
The Girl in White Armor | The Girl in White Armor
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- First Published: 1927
- Time of Work: The early 1400’s
- Setting: Northern France
- Principal Characters: Joan of Arc, Jacques d’Arc, Jean, Durand Laxart, Bertrand de Poulengy, Jean de Metz, Charles VII, Georges de la Trémouille, Pierre Cauchon, Manchon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teenagers, France or French people, Faith, Fifteenth century, Soldiers, Martyrs or martyrdom, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Torture, Middle Ages, Biography, Hundred Years’ War
- Locales: France
Form and Content
In The Girl in White Armor: The Story of Joan of Arc, Albert
Bigelow Paine has written a popular history of an astonishing story.
Over the course of twenty-one chapters, he documents the life of an
illiterate peasant girl who led armies against the English occupiers
of France, who instigated the crowning of King Charles VII, and who
was finally captured, tried, and burned alive. All these events took
place over a period of two-and-a-half years while Joan was still a
teenager.
In the first two chapters, Paine briefly writes on Joan’s
early...
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