The Maid -

Kimberly Cutter

Bloomsbury

2012

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781408821862

The French city of Orleans is under siege, English soldiers are tearing through the countryside and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither strength not the will to rally his army. In the quiet of her parents' garden in Domrémy, a twelve-year-old peasant girl, Jehanne, hears a voice that will change her life - and the course of European history.

The tale of Joan of Arc, the saint and warrior who believed she had been choosen by God, has captivated our imagination for centuries. But behind the myth is the story of Jehanne the peasant: the girl who escaped a violent father and a forced marriage, who taught herself to ride and fight, and who found the courage and tenacity to convince first one, then two, then 10,000 soldiers to follow her into the astonishing battles that turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War.