Sieur Louis de Conte

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Sieur Louis de Conte is a fictional narrator and persona created by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) for his historical novel about Joan of Arc.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary narrator
appearsIn Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
appearsInGenre historical novel
associatedWith Joan of Arc
authorialFunction allows Mark Twain to write as a Catholic French contemporary of Joan
basedOn traditional pages and secretaries in Joan of Arc histories
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: "United States"
creator Mark Twain
Mark Twain
surface form: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
describedAs persona of Mark Twain
fictionalNationality French
fictionalOccupation chronicler
page
secretary
fictionalRelationship childhood friend of Joan of Arc
companion of Joan of Arc
fictionalTimePeriod 15th century
gender male
languageOfWork English
medium prose literature
narrativePerspective retrospective memoir
narrativeRole eyewitness chronicler of Joan of Arc
first-person narrator
notableFor narrating the life and trial of Joan of Arc
settingOfLife Domrémy
France
usedAs literary device to lend authenticity
workPublicationYear 1896
workTitleFull Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
surface form: "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte"

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Samuel hasPseudonym Sieur Louis de Conte
subject surface form: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens"

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