Lessons From Women's Lives (1877)

JOAN OF ARC, " Maid of Orleans," was born in 1410, at the little village of Domremy, in Lorraine. Her father was named Jacques d'Arc, and his wife, Isa-Romee. She was piously brought up by her mother, and was often accustomed to nurse the sick, assist the poor, receive travellers, and take care of her father's flock of sheep; but she was generally employed in sewing or spinning. She also spent a great deal of time in a chestnut grove near her father's cottage. She was noted, even when a chi...