LA PUCELLE d'ORLÉANS. Poeme Heroi-Comique.
[inscribed by Robert Burns] Premiere Edition. A Paris, 1755. Bound in early full calf with red leather spine label. "Premiere Edition." [La Pucelle d'Orléans was] certainly one of his [Voltaire's] more contentious works. An epic and scandalous satire concerning the life of the not-yet-canonised Joan of Arc ("the Maid of Orleans").....