Joan of Arc [complete & unabridged edition]

Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of their luster; judged by the standards of to-day, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet t...