1621 Scarce French Book ~ JEANNE D'ARC et le Siege d'Orleans with JOAN OF ARC portrait.
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Author : Trippault, Léon
Title : L'Histoire et Discours au vray du siege qui fut mis devant la ville d'Orleans par les Anglois, le Mardy XII iour d'Octobre, M.CCCC.XXVIII. regnant alors Charles VII. Roy de France. Contenant toutes les saillies, assauts, escarmouches & autres particularitez notables, qui de iour en iour y furent faictes : avec la venue de Ieanne la Pucelle, & comment par grace divine, & force d'armes, elle fist lever le siege de devant aux Anglois. Prise de mot, à mot, sans aucun changement de langage, d'un vieil exemplaire escrit à la main en parchemin, & trouvé en la maison de la dicte ville d'Orleans, illustrees de belles annotations en marge. Reveu & Augmenté de nouveau outres les precedentes impressions.
Publisher : A ORLEANS, Chez Robert Hotot, Imprimeur & Libraire au Cloistre Saincte Croix, 1621.
Size : 6 "X 4 "
Pages : Unpaginated.
Binding : Attractive and very good original full vellum leather binding with gilt fleur de lys on spine (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (tight, some foxing and staining throughout, some small holes on the lower corner of last pages without affecting the text - as shown).
Illustrations : Illustrated with the beautiful portrait of Joan of Arc (Jeanne la Pucelle).
Provenance : Ditton Park, bookplate.
The book : Scarce and very attractive French 17th century edition of Joan of Arc story - Joan of Arc, in French Jeanne d'Arc (c. 1412 – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory.
The author : Tripaut, Léon (1538?-15..) - Sieur de Bardis. - Advisor to the presidial of Orleans. - Hellenist. - Historian of Orléanais. - Brother of Thomas Trippault and father of Emmanuel Trippault.