Reims · the place of the oil · 17 July 1429
Volume I
Joan of Arc
To Reims
A narrative history, from the village on the Meuse to the anointing of Charles VII on 17 July 1429. Told in order. Sourced at every turn. The voices left standing as she named them.
Chapter I · 1415–1428
A Kingdom Cut in Two
Before there was a Maid, there was a France that no longer knew its king.
Chapter II · c. 1412–1424
Domrémy
A frontier parish, a household of Jacques d’Arc, and a girl who could not later describe herself as anything but a good child.
Chapter III · c. 1425
The Voices
What she said she heard, who she said they were, and why this history will not explain them away.
Chapter IV · 1428
The First Roads
A rejected petition, a burned village, a lawsuit at Toul, and the war arriving at the door.
Chapter V · January–February 1429
Vaucouleurs
Two men-at-arms, a day of herring, and a captain who at last said go.
Chapter VI · 22 February – 6 March 1429
The Ride to Chinon
Eleven days through enemy country, a letter from Fierbois, and a girl lodged at an inn below the castle.
Chapter VII · March 1429
Poitiers
A lost examination, a living conclusion, and the letter that told England to go home.
Chapter VIII · April 1429
Armor, Standard, and Sword
Tours makes her a war-leader in metal and cloth, and Fierbois gives up a buried blade.
Chapter IX · 29 April – 8 May 1429
Orléans
A week that turned a siege of seven months, day by day, from the Burgundy Gate to the Tourelles.
Chapter X · 9 May – 18 June 1429
The Loire
Jargeau, Meung, Beaugency, and Patay: the English field army in the Loire is broken in a month.
Chapter XI · 24 June – 16 July 1429
The Coronation Road
Gien to Auxerre, Troyes, Châlons: towns that had sworn the other king remember which way an army is riding.
Chapter XII · 17 July 1429
Reims
The oil, the crown, the standard at the altar, and the end of the mission she had named.