Presents a biography of Joan of Arc, and includes information on her childhood in fifteenth-century France, the religion, politics, and economics of her day, and her mission to save France from the English.
This book discusses the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and research of cancer, a class of diseases in which groups of cells display uncontrolled growth, invasion, and spreading.
Examines the life of nineteenth-century French actress Sarah Bernhardt, discussing her childhood, her acting career and international fame, her appearances during World War I, and her declining health and death in 1923.