Download or read book The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Vol. 45 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Vol. 45: July, September, November, 1848 VI. Was crowned in Paris king of France and of England. The afi'airs of Charles VII. Were nearly desperate. The English occupied Normandy, Champagne, Picardy, the Isle of France, and Guienne. The Duke of Burgundy, one of the most powerful princes of Europe, was their ally, and so was Isabella, queen of France, Charles's own mother. The English generals, Salisbury, Warwick, Talbot, Arun del, Somerset, were the greatest captains of the age. The English soldiers, ushed with victory, expected another Cre cy or Agincourt in every battle. The French, dispirited, expected always defeat. Disaster and poverty and disgrace seemed to have settled upon the French court and nation. It was in the midst of this state of things, that a peasant girl, nineteen years old, reversed the tide of events, beat down the English power, and in less than a year, driving their victorious armies before her in all directions, saved her king and nation from destruction. Joan of Arc was born about the year 1410, in the village of Dom Remy, which is situated on the river Mensa, in the northeastern part of France, on the borders of Lorraine and Champagne, and not far from the town of Neufchatel. The Burgundians, who sided with the English in the wars of the fifteenth century, claimed Lorraine to the line of the Meuse, and this border region was the battle-field of both parties. Its inhabitants sufi'ered from both sides, and were the sub jects of neither. The peo ls of Dom Remy, however, all took sides with Charles VI of France, and the children of this village fought with the children of a neighbouring village who were in favor of Burgundy. In 1428, when Joan was about eighteen years old, the village of Dom Remy was rav aged by a party of Burgundians, and the inhabitants were forced to y to the neighbouring walled town of Neufchatel. She took refuge there for five days, with her father and mother, at an inn. In such situations as these, people be come thoughtful and poetic, of which the minstrelsy of the Scottish border affords a proof and even the peasantry take a strong interest in national affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."