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Read Mark Twain’s ‘Joan of Arc’ — It Will Surprise You and Make You Want to Become a Saint
National Catholic Register ^ | May 30, 2023 | Zubair Simonson

Posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:19 AM PDT by ebb tide

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1 posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:19 AM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 05/30/2023 10:07:01 AM PDT by ebb tide (The pope ... said the church's “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.”)
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3 posted on 05/30/2023 10:10:28 AM PDT by simpson96
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I love Mark Twain, but have never read this one. And it just so happens I was going to order some books today...


4 posted on 05/30/2023 10:24:53 AM PDT by Twotone
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Mark Twain said that of all of the books he wrote, he thought Joan of Arc was the best.
5 posted on 05/30/2023 10:27:18 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: ebb tide

I already am a saint.


6 posted on 05/30/2023 10:27:34 AM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur. )
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Thriftbooks.com has Twain’s The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Vols. 1 & 2.


7 posted on 05/30/2023 10:30:47 AM PDT by mumblypeg ("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
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Actual title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (Twain tells it from de Conte prospective). On Kindle, it’s 99-cents.

Twain said he spent several months in France doing research on the way he’d tell the story.

Hefty book, 452 pages.


8 posted on 05/30/2023 10:31:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Every Englishman sings and memorized Agincourt the same way we sing about Midway. But they tend to shut up about anything OTHER than Agincourt when it comes to the Hundred Years War.

The French won over the English because a certain French teenager who talked to God turned the tides of war. She truly is a God-send.


10 posted on 05/30/2023 10:34:58 AM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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11 posted on 05/30/2023 10:37:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: ebb tide

I have read a lot of Twain, but not that one. Adding it to my summer reading list.


12 posted on 05/30/2023 11:00:37 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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by the Sieur Louis de Conte (Twain tells it from de Conte prospective).

First published with a byline of the "translator" though the ruse to conceal the name of the author didn't last more than a few months.

13 posted on 05/30/2023 11:14:35 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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Thank you! It can be read free here and I certainly plan to!

https://archive.org/details/completeworksofm17twai/page/n5/mode/2up


14 posted on 05/30/2023 11:18:58 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: ebb tide

Great book.


15 posted on 05/30/2023 11:35:32 AM PDT by Dave911
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That didn’t take long.

Can we make this a Catholic Caucus?


16 posted on 05/30/2023 11:38:03 AM PDT by Texas_Guy
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If it helps you to feel safe, then you should have your “safe space.”


17 posted on 05/30/2023 12:05:08 PM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur. )
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Today is the anniversary of her death (May 30, 1431) and not coincidentally her feast day.

Of course that was before the calendar reform of 1582--May 30 in 1431 would be equivalent of June 9 in the Gregorian calendar.

18 posted on 05/30/2023 12:14:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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I thought Mark Twain was an unapologetic atheist.


19 posted on 05/30/2023 1:34:37 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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