Anatole France - Exceptionnel manuscrit autographe La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc 196p

Important and exceptional manuscript of Anatole France's work, gathering reading notes, drafts, sketches and preparatory reflections for one of the author's major historical works: The Life of Jeanne d'Arc (published in 1908). This vast documentary collection illustrates the rigor of Anatole France's method, his in-depth search for sources, and his rationalist approach aimed at analyzing and deconstructing the Johannine myth. The sheets teem with erasures, corrections and self-reproaches, characteristic of his creative process and his thinking in motion. Some of his hand-drawn sketches are present. Notably, there is a recurring presence of pages written on letterhead paper from the Senate, recalling his years of service as a librarian. The author tackles in detail folklore, medieval spirituality and the great historical controversies. The manuscript contains remarkable developments on: - Lorraine folklore, the Tree of the Fairies and the topography of Domrémy: The file devotes numerous pages to Jeanne's magical childhood environment. It includes precise topographical surveys describing the “wood Chesnu,” the slope of the hill, the Dourlemont fountain and the exact location of the Tree of the Fairies (or the “charmed fairy tree of Bourlémont”), crossing the Rouen trial narratives with studies by Siméon Luce and Henry Carnoy. "Near Domremy there is a tree, large, fat and old, [...] and near the tree is a fountain. Around the tree and the fountain dance, it is said, the clever spirits called fairies, with whom those skilled in the practice of sorcery customarily dance at night." - The theological bestiary (The Unicorn and the Basilisk): Anatole France studies medieval animal symbolism by comparing the purity of the Virginal (the Pucelle) to the legend of the unicorn (as it appears in bestiaries and the stained glass of Bourges Cathedral), which he juxtaposes directly with the basilisk, defined as the dark emblem of the evil genius. "For Joan of Arc. 'Thus, if she is not a maiden, the unicorn must not touch her, but kill the corrupted and non-virginal girl.'" - Marian spirituality and archival scrubbings: The collection testifies to intense research work: the writer personally consulted manuscripts in the Arsenal Library, the Mazarin Library and the Elzevir library, noting the call numbers of venerable Books of Hours from the 15th century, the XV Joys of Our Lady, as well as the historical origins of the Angelus and the Salve Regina. - The critical analysis of the Voices (Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine): A vast sub-file analyzes the iconography and legends of Jeanne's protective saints according to the Golden Legend by Jacques de Voragine. The author synthesizes their tortures while adopting a critical, distanced view of hagiographical exaggerations. "Saint Margaret Sometimes in the old manuscript hours, besides her prayer, her legend is developed in the form of little verses [...] attached to the volume." - The mystery of survivance and the Lady of the Hawthorns: The manuscript addresses the controversy of the false Jeanne d’Arc who claimed to have escaped the burning. A rigorous chronology of August 1436 events (recognition by her brothers in Orléans, marriage to Robert des Armoises) is uncovered, along with a critical inquiry into the methods of 17th-century scholars Jérôme and Nicolas Nicolas Vignier, suspected of documentary manipulation. - Classical literary historiography: The author devotes notes to poetic and theatrical representations of the Pucelle under the Ancien Régime, studying the forgotten tragedies of Jean Virey (1600), of the abbot d’Aubignac (1641) and Jean Chapelain's epic poem. "Jean Chapelain 24 chants [30 years] 1656 - the first 12 chants 1757 8 new chants." - Dimensions: From the file: 20 x 27.5 cm - Condition: See photos for more details. - Number of pages: 196 pages - Anatole France, born François Anatole Thibault, on 16 April 1844 in Paris and died 12 October 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, is a French writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest of the Third Republic era, of which he was also one of the most important literary critics. Wikipedia - Jeanne d'Arc, known as "the Pucelle", born around 1412 in Domrémy, village of the Duchy of Bar, and who died on the stake on 30 May 1431 in Rouen, capital of the Duchy of Normandy then English possession, ... Wikipedia - Jérôme Vignier, born in Blois in 1606, and died in Paris on 14 November 1661, was a French priest of the Oratorian order, a literary critic and forger of historical documents aimed at demonstrating the antiquity of papal recognition of the Gallican Church. Wikipedia

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