IN order to understand the condition of France in the fifteenth century, when Jeanne d' Are, the noblest figure of profane history, appeared, and how it was that so powerful and wealthy a country had sunk to the need of miraculous interposition to free her from the yoke of the invader, we must go back to the fourteenth century. In the year 1314, Philip the Fair, King of France, died, leaving three sons. None of these had sons, so that they successively occupied the throne. In 1328, the youngest was laid to rest in St. Denis, and the house of Capet, for the first time, since, from the ruins of...
IN order to understand the condition of France in the fifteenth century, when Jeanne d' Are, the noblest figure of profane history, appeared, and how ...
