Joan of Arc... The legend of the "shepherd" was born in the 19th century, on the crest of another revolutionary wave in France, when the bourgeoisie strongly opposed the return of the aristocracy to the political arena. Such Jeanne was counted among the saints in 1920. But in modern encyclopedias in the Middle Ages, an alternative version is increasingly appearing. Namely, that Jeanne was a princess - the daughter of the Duke of Louis of Orleans and Queen of France Isabella of Bavaria. And that her life was far from the way the official history offers us. Dmitry Agalakov's new historical and adventure novel "The Princess of Blood, or the True Story of Joan of Arc - The Virgin of France" immerses us in this cycle of events. The novel consists of two books: "Lily Flower" and "Flight of the Eagle." The chain of events begins with Jeanne's first birthdays at Paris's Barbette Palace, including all her grand campaigns, until the day of true death in 1449, which happened eighteen years later than stated by traditional history...