Joan of Arc (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438529455)

Lord Ronald Gower (1845 ù1916) was a British aristocrat, Liberal politician, sculptor and writer. Besides being a sculpture he wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, and a history of the Tower of London. Joan of Arc was a15th century French heroine. She was born a peasant girl in eastern France who grew up to lead the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old.

Author: Ronald Sutherland Gower
ISBN-10: 1438529457
ISBN-13: 9781438529455
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2009
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.39d