Joan of Arc
RM 3.75
ISBN:
111111
Categories:
General Novel
History
File Size
0.60 MB
Format
epub
Language
English
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Synopsis
Lord Ronald Gower was a British aristocrat, Liberal politician, sculptor and writer. Besides being a sculpture he wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, and a history of the Tower of London. Joan of Arc was a15th century French heroine. She was born a peasant girl in eastern France who grew up to lead the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old.