Joan of Arc. Her Story

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Joan of Arc. Her Story. By R(gine Pernoud (^ 1998) and Marie-Veronique Clin. Translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. Pp. xxiii, 304. $27.95.)

In her short life, Joan of Arc was co-opted by opposing forces that sought to use her for their own ends. Since then, she has been hailed as a French nationalist, scorned as a monarchist, prayed to as saint and martyr, championed and pilloried as a feminist and cross-dresser, and honored as a prisoner-of-war But scholarly and popular authors often consider Joan through their eyes, not hers. By contrast, Regine Pernoud, founding director of the Centre Jeanne dArc in …