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A Frenchman pisses on the Joan of Arc myth.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/26/jonhenley
I wonder if that book has been translated into English. Sounds like a good read.
A Frenchman pisses on the Joan of Arc myth.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/26/jonhenley
Quote:Truth tarnishes legend of St Joan
Quote:"I'm very much afraid that precious little of what we French have been taught in school about Joan of Arc is true," said Roger Caratini, an eminent academic, historian, mathematician and psychoanalyst and the author of Joan of Arc: from Domrémy to Orléans, the stake to the legend.
"She was, it seems, almost entirely the creation of France's desperate need for a patriotic mascot in the 19th century. The country wanted a hero, the myths of the revolution were altogether too bloody, and France more or less invented the story of its patron saint. The reality is, sadly, a little different."
I wonder if that book has been translated into English. Sounds like a good read.
