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burlesque-heroic

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  • It was reserved for a countryman of Joan of Arc's (Du Bellay) to invent a legend to disprove the fact; and to the everlasting shame of French literature, Voltaire adopted the lying calumny in his licentious burlesque-heroic poem, La Pucelle d'Orleans.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Bellay) to invent a legend to disprove the fact; and to the everlasting shame of French literature, Voltaire adopted the lying calumny in his licentious burlesque-heroic poem, _La Pucelle d'Orléans_.

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

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