1. Annuaire d'études françaises 2014, tome 1: La vie de la cour en France de Charlemagne jusqu'à Louis XIV / Annual of French Studies 2014, volume 1 : The Court Life in France from Charlemagne till Louis XIV (2014)
2. Joan of Arc and the Court of King Charles VII. The Story of Betrayal of the Virgin Through the Eyes of Contemporaries and Descendants

Joan of Arc and the Court of King Charles VII. The Story of Betrayal of the Virgin Through the Eyes of Contemporaries and Descendants

Togoeva Olga

   The article deals with the legend of Joan of Arc’s betrayal committed by Charles VII himself and by his court which took place in 1431. The author analyses in every detail the content of this legend, its origins and circumstances of its emergence and the features of its success in French historical writings: in chronicles of the 15th century (Enguerran de Monstrelet, Jean Chartier, Jacques Dulclercq, Georges Chastellain), in historical works of the 16th century (Alain Bouchart, Brantôme, André Thevet), in national French Histoires of François de Mezeray (1646) and Louis Le Gendre (1719) and in historical writings of the 18th — 19th centuries. 

Keywords: medieval history, historiography, France, Joan of Arc.

Link: Togoeva O. Joan of Arc and the Court of King Charles VII. The Story of Betrayal of the Virgin Through the Eyes of Contemporaries and Descendants // Annuaire d'études françaises 2014, tome 1: La vie de la cour en France de Charlemagne jusqu'à Louis XIV / Annual of French Studies 2014, volume 1 : The Court Life in France from Charlemagne till Louis XIV.М. P. 92-114.