Excerpt from Jeanne D'arc, the Maid of France Pagne, and Isabeau Romee, his wife, was born at Vouthon, a village across the hills to the west in the duchy of Bar. Among her people were a carpenter and a tiler, a brother and a nephew were in the church. There must have been a tradition of piety in the family, for the surname Rome'e was given to those who had made some famous pilgrimage, per haps as far as Rome; and Isabeau was a devout and energetic woman, with the will for holy j ourneyings, even if she herself had never ...
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Excerpt from Jeanne D'arc, the Maid of France Pagne, and Isabeau Romee, his wife, was born at Vouthon, a village across the hills to the west in the duchy of Bar. Among her people were a carpenter and a tiler, a brother and a nephew were in the church. There must have been a tradition of piety in the family, for the surname Rome'e was given to those who had made some famous pilgrimage, per haps as far as Rome; and Isabeau was a devout and energetic woman, with the will for holy j ourneyings, even if she herself had never taken the staff and shells. Five children were born to Jacques and Isabeau Jacquemin and Jean, Catherine, who died soon after her early marriage, Jeanne, and Pierre. The stone and plaster cottage of Jacques d'arc was separated from the church only by the graveyard, and his little plot of ground which was both garden and orchard. It was more splendid than many of its neighbors, for it had three or four rooms, and the cattle were not stabled under the roof. Near the entrance the inevitable great manure-heap was buttressed up for spring farming, and wood was stacked ready for fireplace and oven. In the living-room, to the left of the doorway, the low ceiling is crossed by oak dark with age, and by the great fireplace in the corner the lantern might be hung on a projecting beam, when daylight had faded from the one window. Here the father and mother had their cupboard bed, a few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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