JOAN OF ARC.
ANOTHER myth. The heroic story of Joaq qC Arc, her visions, her voice, her defeat of the English, her. betrayal and her burning by her English captors, have for centuries been a. story that enthralled mankind especially its sad climax, the cr.uel burning at Rouen. Nqw a French writer comes aloing with a book in which he tries to prove .that Joant was not burned' to death, but that-.the English c'on|niv,ed at her escape, and burnt in her ste.a.d an old hag condemned for witchcraft. The author quotes official records to sho,w that Joan, visited variqus .towns in France subsequent to her alleged burning, and finally she married one. Sieur Robert des Arm'oises, and became the mother of a familiy whose descendants were living in Lorraine about 100 yea.rs ago.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5321, 3 September 1928, Page 2
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133JOAN OF ARC. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5321, 3 September 1928, Page 2
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