[Gutenberg 2553] • Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
- Authors
- Oliphant, Margaret
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Tags
- saint , history , france -- history , joan , 1412-1431 , biography , of arc
- ISBN
- 9781717316592
- Date
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- en
When Charles VII. of France began, nominally, his reign, his uncles and cousins, his nearest kinsmen, were as determinedly his opponents, as was Henry V. of England, whose frank object was to take the crown from his head. The country was torn in pieces with different causes and cries. The English were but little farther off from the Parisian than was the Burgundian, and the English king was only a trifle less French than were the members of the royal family of France.