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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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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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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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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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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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Great book.


15 posted on 05/30/2023 11:35:32 AM PDT by Dave911
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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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Free download from Project Gutenberg:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
21 posted on 05/30/2023 1:51:18 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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Thanks for posting! Very interesting, never knew of this book.


23 posted on 05/30/2023 2:56:18 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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“ Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. It took six thousand years to produce her; her like will not be seen in the earth again in fifty thousand. She is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.”
Mark Twain


51 posted on 06/02/2023 1:20:53 PM PDT by HandyDandy (dominus vobiscum)
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