![]() ![]() ![]() Joan answers all questions satisfactorily, and she is set free to do whatever she can for France. The issue of Joan hearing voices garners an inquisition from the Roman Catholic Church, presided over by French clergymen. Only sixteen years old, Joan leaves for Chinon with veteran knights, Louis the narrator and several of her childhood friends. The governor refuses, but Joan persists until he agrees to provide the armed escort. ![]() She must first convince the governor of Vaucouleurs to provide her with an armed escort to Chinon, where Charles VII resides, the dauphine of France. Her life proceeds normally until she hears voices from saints and angels who urge her to fight for French independence from the English. Armagnacs, or French loyalists, populate her village in an area dominated by Burgundians, or English sympathizers. Joan of Arc grows up in Domremy, a small village in the eastern part of France. Louis accompanies Joan as her secretary through the battles and witnesses her trial and execution at the hands of the English. The Sieur Louis de Conte, a fictional character invented by Mark Twain, tells the story of Joan of Arc, Louis' childhood friend and an actual figure in history, who fights for French independence from the English in the 15th century. ![]()
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