![]() ![]() They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. In politics they were Armagnacs-patriots they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. ![]() My family had fled to those distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of the century. I, the Sieur Louis de Conte, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410 that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. But this is the first paragraph of Book I, Chapter I: Opening Passage: This is one of those books that has no strict opening passage, since it purports to be a translation of a historical work, and thus has its fictional translator's preface, plus the prefatory material of the quasi-fictional narrator, as well as the work itself. ![]()
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