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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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vernor and given stout men-at-arms to escort her to the king. Now Jeanne had never seen him, and the kingscouncil thought to play a trick on her. Anotherwas seated on the throne, and the king, in veryquiet dress, stood in the group of courtiers. Butthe Maid scanned their faces, knelt before thereal king, and prayed him to give her troops toraise the siege of Orleans and break the Englishpower. Asked for a sign, she repeated a prayerhe had offered that morning. More delays while Jeanne was examined byclergy, courtiers, and university men and hermission inquired into. But at last she was givencommand of the soldiers. Life came back to thearmy and victory to France. The English wereforced to give up the siege of Orleans; battleswere fought and won; the king was crowned inthe cathedral at Rheims, the very building whosedestruction has recently aroused such protests. Jeanne had said repeatedly that her work mustbe done in one year, and again her Voices spoke A NEW STATUE OF JEANNE DARC 403
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Photograph by De Witt C. Ward. JEANNE DAKC. SCULPTURED BY ANNA VAUGHN HYATT. true. For at Compiegne she was captured by the sand gold livres, a princes ransom, she was soldtroops of the Duke of Burgundy. For ten thou- to the English, and carried to Rouen for trial. 404 A NEW STATUE OF JEANNE DARC (Mae., A mockery of a trial it was, at the hands ofher enemy. She was pronounced guilty of heresyand sorcery and sentenced to be burned at thestake. And France, whom she had saved, al-lowed this sentence to be carried out in the mar-ket-place of Rouen. A martyr at nineteen, misunderstood, reviled,considered an impostor, her service to France wasundervalued; not until years later was the kinganxious to have justice done to her memory.

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