Joan Of Arc
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"Joan of Arc", nicknamed ""The Maid of Orléans"" (), is considered a heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle, a peasant family, at Domrémy-la-Pucelle/Domrémy in north-east France. Joan said she received visions of the Archangel Michael (archangel)/Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine instructing her to support Charles VII of France/Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted in only nine days. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims. On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the allied English-Burgundian (party)/Burgundian faction. She was later handed over to the English, and then put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty she was death by burning/burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.

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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed.

You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Act, and God will act.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.