Joan of Arc (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lowell, Francis C.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Joan of Arc To most persons the life of Joan of Arc is unreal, resembling a picturesque legend rather than truthful history. In truth, however, the facts of her real life are known to a somewhat remarkable degree of certainty and in very considerable detail. Pure legends concerning her are, indeed, common enough, - they sprang into existence within a fortnight of her appearance at Charles´s court; but their absurdity can be easily detected, not merely by their extravagant improbability, but because they are inconsistent with well-known facts. The life of Joan of Arc affords a striking illustration of two important historical principles: first, that legends require the shortest possible time for their luxuriant growth, - a contemporaneous account being often little less legendary than an account separated from the event by a considerable lapse of time; and second, that the wildest and most improbable legends may exist beside the most definite and well-ascertained historical facts. The popular impression concerning Joan and the existence of these numerous legends have caused me in this book to cite authorities more frequently and more fully than I should otherwise have done. In the management of proper names I may not hope to have succeeded better than other authors who have written of the history of one country in the language of another. In this matter it is hard to formulate a principle, and impossible to live up to it when formulated without falling into absurdity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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