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1328-1589, house of valois

Notre-Dame de Paris

1993
Set in the year 1482, relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.

Joan of Arc

religious and military leader
2010
A biography of Joan of Arc that describes her childhood in war-torn France, her experiences hearing sacred voices, and her canonization.

Joan of Arc

warrior saint of France
2008
A biography of fifteenth-century national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, who was tried and executed for heresy by the British in 1431.

The hunchback of Notre-Dame

2010
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

Young Joan

a novel
1997
Joan, a girl growing up in the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn country in opposition to the English invaders.

The burning times

a novel of Medieval France
2001
Mother Marie Francoise, targeted by the Inquisition for practicing magic and communing with the devil, is urged to confess her sins to Michel, a Dominican scribe who is compelled to prove Marie innocent even after she reveals the truth about her pagan ways.

The life and times of Joan of Arc

2006
Presents a brief, illustrated, biography of Joan of Arc, the fifteenth century hero of France who at age thirteen began hearing voices that encouraged her to save France from English invaders.

The lady and the unicorn

2005
Imagines the lives and intrigues of the men and women involved in the creation of the fifteenth-century "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries.

The witch in the well

2004
Catherine LeVendeur must risk everything she holds dear to answer her grandfather's summons that she and her family come to his castle in Blois where the magical well that legend claims is key to the castle's survival, is running dry.

Personal recollections of Joan of Arc

2002
Relates the story of the life of Joan of Arc, as seen through the eyes of the fictional narrator Sieur Louis de Conte, Joan's childhood friend and secretary.

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