We realize in this final chapter that Mariane has her speech restored and she has found love and happiness in her life, even after the horrors of her early years. Chandler tells Jehanne's story through the narrative of Mariane, Jehanne's cousin, a girl mute from the trauma of her mother's murder by English marauders.Īt the end of the story, in 1456, many years after Jehanne's burning at the stake for heresy, Mariane and her family come to celebrate the exoneration of Jehanne (and the beginning of her path to eventual canonization in 1920). And this is the France of the 15th century, not the civilized secular society of Europe today. However, in a place torn apart by religious wars, fierce beliefs intensify. Apparently, a lot of folk in Jehanne's (Joan's) peasant society felt the same way. A young girl seeing and hearing visions from God, urging her to take up arms and rescue France? It seems like madness. Our modern-day sensibilities are uncomfortable with the basic Joan of Arc story. Warrior Girl: A Novel of Joan of Arc." Retrieved from Warrior Girl: A Novel of Joan of Arc." The Free Library.
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