Flame It’s 583 years today since Joan of Arc was burned to death: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_of_Arc_Roen_Burning_place_IMG_1602.JPG This is how I found out about her, when I was five: lookandlearn/history-images/N804101/Joan-of-Arc?img=1&search=George+Morrow&bool=phrase Then when I was seven, I read this: ‘…Then when all was over Joan begged to be allowed to go home again to tend sheep once more and to be with her brothers and her sisters. They would be so glad to see me, she said, my work here is done. But the King would not let her go. The English still remained in the country and fighting still went on. So Joan, as she was not allowed to go home, went on fighting too. But one sad day, during a battle, she was wounded and taken prisoner by the English. The English were very glad of this, because they thought that she was a witch. In those days people still believed in witches and were very much afraid of them. The English thought that no one who was not a witch could have done the wonderful things Joan had done. After being kept in prison for nearly a year, Joan, young, beautiful, and good though she was, was burned as a witch because she had freed her country. The English did not do this wicked deed but, what was almost as bad, they allowed their friends, the Burgundians, who were French, but who had been fighting on the English side, to do it…’ mainlesson/display.php?author=marshall&book=island&story=orleans&PHPSESSID=eea3057129ff744321b0bdd007b12bc7 I haven’t really been stirred by the Shaw play, although I know others who have. For me, Villon gets more power into two lines: ‘…La royne Blanche comme ung lys, Qui chantoit à voix de sereine; Berthe au grand pied, Bietris, Allys; Harembourges qui tint le Mayne, Et Jehanne, la bonne Lorraine, QuAnglois bruslerent à Rouen; Où sont-ilz, Vierge souveraine ? Mais où sont les neiges dantan!..’ And a taste of Honegger: https://youtube/watch?v=W4T3jO1WMmM You?
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:36:23 +0000
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