The Life Of Joan Of Arc (Volume I)

Described by Charles T. Wood, co-editor of Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, as "the classic skeptic's account, usually underrated on that account, but very solidly based in all the documents that it also has the virtue of quoting extensively.
Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life. In the 1920 his writings were put on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Roman Catholic Church.