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J'Accuse: A Medieval Crime and the Servant Girl Who Changed History

J'Accuse: A Medieval Crime and the Servant Girl Who Changed History

Thibodeaux, Jennifer D.

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1567928676
ISBN13: 9781567928679
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

She was a servant with no voice. He was a predator with powerful friends. She refused to stay silent--and changed history.

Normandy, 1429. The Hundred Years' War rages, Joan of Arc is leading the resistance, and the English occupy the land. In the midst of this chaos, a young, lowborn servant named Jeanne Corvière attends a hiring fair, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she meets a sergeant of the law who lures her away with a lie about a wife in labor.

What follows is a brutal assault in a dense forest and a shocking act of corruption. When Corvière seeks justice, she discovers the investigation has been mysteriously rigged. But she refuses to accept defeat. She launches a decade-long legal battle that takes her to the high courts of Rouen. Her quest for justice will shake the very foundations of the French legal system.

It is a pattern we know all too well: predatory behavior by men of elite classes whose victims are women of a lower status, whose bodies they believe they can appropriate. Many women in Corvière's place would have given up. But she did not.


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