Conte retold these events as chronicler and minstrel from Gower and Sepet, notations at Berkeley. Early in the story, Twain as Conte brought out the events of the Hundred Years' War which led to the betrayal of the French nation and the exile of the French Dauphin by the Treaty of Troyes. Twain extended another dual role to his second narrator, the Paladin as entertainer and troubadour. Twain's Joan of Arc represents the literary, historical, and religious achievement of an unacknowledged American scholar who showed an outstanding youth of character, integrity, and purity.Throughout the narrative in his book, Twain reflected Joan's page and secretary Louis de Conte as his persona in the dual role of chronicler and minstrel. It shows that Twain as Louis de Conte, chronicler and minstrel, faithfully retold Joan's story from his sources.

The study focuses upon the historical and literary merits of Twain's Joan through a detailed analysis of Twain's notations in his French and English sources (Berkeley). It points to Twain as an unacknowledged historian and scholar who, despite his biases and misgivings from his previous books and from his sources, fashioned Joan's story for an American audience while he stayed abroad in Florence and Paris with his family. Regardless, his authorship soon became known, and the present volume was published by Harper and Brothers in May 1896 crediting Twain as the author.This study shows in Twain's Joan a mosaic work of French history and American folk humor. Twain, aware of his reputation as a humorist, asked that each installment appear anonymously as he desired that readers treat the piece seriously. Presented as a translation by Jean Francois Alden of Joan of Arc's page and secretary the Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc first appeared as a serial in Harper's Magazine beginning in April of 1895. Rare and desirable in this condition and with noted provenance. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Tasteful period bookplate from the library of New York lawyer and book collector Charles C. Octavo, original cloth, elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece engraving of Joan of arc and 36 additional plates, publishers advertisements at rear with the heading “Some Books for the Library. Item Number: 95284įirst edition, first state of Twain’s last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, By The Sieur Louis De Conte.

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