St. Nicholas (serial) (1915) (14782705784)

Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)

Title: St. Nicholas (serial)

Year: 1873 (1870s)

Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905

Subjects: Children's literature

Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)

Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Photograph by De Witt C. Ward. JEANNE DAKC. SCULPTURED BY ANNA VAUGHN HYATT. true. For at Compiegne she was captured by the sand gold livres, a princes ransom, she was soldtroops of the Duke of Burgundy. For ten thou- to the English, and carried to Rouen for trial. 404 A NEW STATUE OF JEANNE DARC (Mae., A mockery of a trial it was, at the hands ofher enemy. She was pronounced guilty of heresyand sorcery and sentenced to be burned at thestake. And France, whom she had saved, al-lowed this sentence to be carried out in the mar-ket-place of Rouen. A martyr at nineteen, misunderstood, reviled,considered an impostor, her service to France wasundervalued; not until years later was the kinganxious to have justice done to her memory.

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DETAIL OF THE JEANNE DARC STATUE For rescuing her country from the English,what was the reward asked by this peasant girl?That Domremy should be exempt from taxes. Forherself she wanted nothing ! Her love for her vil-lage was so great that she promised to watchover it always. The German invasion hasbrought the soldiers of the kaiser into its vicin- ity. But while on every hand other villages havebeen sacked and burned, Domremy stands to-dayuntouched by the world war. And the Germantroops, saluting her statue there, left it un-harmed ! A convincing proof, the peasants say,that Jeanne keeps her promise. Some five years since, a group of New York-ers, keenly interested in the Maid of Orleans,thought that there should be a statue of herin this country. The idea once conceived, twenty- five men and women organ-ized into a committee andbegan their work by study-ing very carefully all mat-ters relating to Jeanne dArc.They asked themselves notWhat do we want? butWhat do we not want? Invarious

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1915

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