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Dove and sword

a novel of Joan of Arc
1997
In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.

Joan of Arc

2008
Chronicles the life of Joan of Arc, discussing her childhood, influence on the people of France, legacy, and more. Includes over one hundred photographs and images as well as definition boxes, sidebars, and a time line.

Joan of Arc

heroine of France
2005
A discussion of the life and times of the French heroine, Joan of Arc, with illustrations from the medieval period.

Dragon

hound of honor
2005
In medieval France, an Irish wolfhound helps solve the murder of his master, the beloved son of the Count de Montdidier and leader of the Royal Bodyguard in the court of Charles V.

Hunchdog of Notre Dame

1997
Wishbone the book-reading dog imagines himself in the role of Quasimodo, the famous bell ringer of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris who must fight his evil master to save the life of the beautiful Esmeralda.

The minstrel in the tower

2004
In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel through the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.

Personal recollections of Joan of Arc

1989
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.

The jester

2004
An innkeeper just back from the First Crusade disguises himself as a court jester to save his wife, who has been abducted by an evil duke searching for a holy relic.

Joan of Arc

the warrior saint
2003
Chronicles the life of Joan of Arc, discussing how she convinced theologians and the future King Charles VII that she had heard the voices of saints and should be trusted to lead the English troops to military victory.

The hunchback of Notre Dame

2007
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.

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