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The Maid of Orleans

Chapter 13: Transcriber’s Notes
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A peasant shepherd girl, guided by visions and heavenly voices, leaves her rural home to accept a divine commission, rallying forces to lift a decisive siege and secure a coronation. Her battlefield triumphs give way to political ingratitude, a fateful choice to remain in service, capture by enemies, a corrupt ecclesiastical trial, and execution as a heretic. Woven through these events is a romantic subplot about an abduction and its daring rescue that lightens the close. The narrative combines pastoral reverie, military episodes, courtroom drama, and martyrdom into a concise, historically oriented life portrait.

LIFE STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Translated from the German
by George P. Upton

Beethoven
Mozart
Maid of Orleans
William Tell

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Transcriber’s Notes

  • Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)
  • Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.