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Jeanne d'Arc : La reconquête de la France

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Une quarantaine de courts récits qui retracent la résistance de Jeanne d'Arc aux Anglais et le sursaut du peuple de France, qui vont conduire en vingt ans à la reconquête définitive du territoire et à la réhabilitation de Jeanne, effaçant la honte de sa condamnation.

141 pages, Pocket Book

First published September 6, 1995

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Régine Pernoud

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Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909 in Château-Chinon, Nièvre - 22 April 1998 in Paris) was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc.

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January 6, 2015
Lo primero que hay que saber de este libro es que su título (título de editor, no es el original dado por la autora) es engañoso. No se trata de una biografía de Juana de Arco sino de una crónica de los 19 años que pasan entre el momento en que se enciende la hoguera de Juana en 1431 y el 7 de julio de 1456 cuando se declara en Rouen la plena inocencia de "la Pucelle". Una vez aclarado esto hay que decir que son 19 años fascinantes, que resulta sorprendente el giro que en unos pocos años da la fortuna de los Lancaster y, en sentido contrario al de Carlos VII y que Régine Pernoud lo trata con su claridad y buen estilo habituales (aunque no sea, desde luego, un libro para anglófilos).
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September 27, 2020
"Un nouveau chapitre s'ouvre dans l'histoire: la chrétienté ne songe plus désormais à s'opposer à l'avance musulmane. L'esprit est mort qui animait ceux partis quatre siècles auparavant pour libèrer Jérusalem, et venir au secours de leurs frères chrétiens. On peut y voir la fin d'un état d'esprit, la fin d'un monde chevaleresque prêt à se lancer dans une aventure lointaine, aux dépens de ses intérêts immédiats." 
("A new chapter opens in history: Christendom henceforth no longer thinks of opposing the Muslim advance. Dead is the spirit which animated those who left four centuries before to liberate Jerusalem, and come to the aid of their Christian brothers. We can see in it the end of a state of mind, the end of a chivalrous world ready to embark on a distant adventure, at the cost of its immediate interests.")

Jeanne d'Arc 'the reconquest of France' is a brief account by the incomparable medievalist Régine Pernoud. It outlines the events after Joan of Arc's death up to her rehabilitation in 1456, a timeframe that isn't often given much attention. Régine's perceptive reflection above brings to mind Jeanne's own words in 1429, stating that feuding Frenchmen should forgive each other, and those longing for war should go after the Saracens.
Given her prescience, it's a bittersweet lens on her role at the end of an era—of chivalry, of the Hundred Years War, and of the Middle Ages, beginning with the 1453 Turkish capture of Constantinople. 
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