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From ancient times to the present, there is no shortage of legendary women in this world, especially during the war years.
Hundreds of years ago, a prophet predicted that France would one day be destroyed by one woman and saved by another.
The French were convinced that the woman who destroyed France was Queen Isabella, the wife of King Charles VI of France.
Isabella had lived an extravagant and lavish life since she married Charles VI in 1388 and became Queen of France, despite the fact that the people at that time were not happy and hungry.
Charles VI with Isabella
Her husband, who was overworked for state affairs, suffered from mental illness during his reign and fell to power in the DPRK. The princes and nobles split into multiple factions for power and fought all day long. Just at this moment, the roof leaked in the overnight rain, and Isabella turned her back on her husband and secretly had an affair with another man, and there was chaos in the middle.
The people were extremely dissatisfied with the unruly and lascivious queen, and complained bitterly, demanding that she be sent to the monastery to repent. Isabella resisted fiercely and did not want to be a nun... In the eyes of the French people, Isabella has become a red face and a disaster for the country and the people.
Later, the arrival of a woman rewrote the history of France, this person is Joan of Arc, a rural girl who has been named a "holy girl".
As we all know, in history, Britain and France were a pair of wrongdoers, and the two countries experienced a "Hundred Years' War" for 116 years.
In 1412, in the middle of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, a baby girl fell to the ground and was born into a rural peasant family in northeastern France, and the adult named her Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc's father, a farmer, ran a 50-acre farm and came from a well-to-do family.
Although the family is well-off, Joan of Arc, who was put into a war environment and grew up as soon as she was born, has never witnessed the cruel scenes of war since she was a child. Because the small village where he lived was often attacked by war, Joan of Arc secretly decided to grow up and defend the country and fight for national independence.
As a teenager, Joan of Arc joined the anti-British guerrillas in his hometown, fought against the invading British army, and accumulated rich combat experience in guerrilla warfare again and again.
Young girls live like men, which also reflects the cruelty of war on a certain level.
At the age of 16, Joan of Arc, who was praying in church, seemed to hear God's "call" to her in a trance, when the British army invaded Normandy, France.
Seeing that the land was about to be reduced to a British colony, Joan of Arc obeyed God's call, and after leaving the church, she told a sir named Comte what God had said to her. She said:
God conveyed His will to me, hoping that I would take on the task of saving the nation...
Sir was a little surprised to hear this, but did not take his words to heart.
After that, Joan of Arc explained again and again with a serious look, and Sir Condé chose to believe. After that, he began to preach that Joan of Arc was the legendary French "savior".
However, it was not enough to persuade Sir Joan of Arc to ask Sir Conde to introduce him to the Governor.
The governor laughed when he learned that a yellow-haired man from the countryside wanted to see him and discuss with him about fighting with soldiers.
After meeting the Governor, Joan of Arc said solemnly:
Please help me tell the prince that soon reinforcements will come to his aid, and I am the commander-in-chief of the support army. Also, please let the prince send me another army, and I will lead the army to drive the British out of Normandy...
The governor laughed and cried, thinking that the girl in front of him was naïve, ignorant, and absurd, and that what he said was simply a fantasy. Before the girl could speak again, the Governor had already whisked his sleeves away.
The maiden was not a man of contempt, and since he could not persuade the governor, he would start with the people around him.
Thus, Joan of Arc told everyone around the governor of god's "will" to himself, and the news spread ten times and ten hundred, and finally soon formed the effect of "three people becoming tigers".
The whole city is talking and rushing to tell each other: the French "savior" has arrived...
In the end, under great pressure from public opinion, the governor had to give in to reality and introduced Joan of Arc to the crown prince.
Joan of Arc in a military uniform
Later, Joan of Arc, with his outstanding talents, persuaded the prince. The Crown Prince made Joan of Arc dressed in men's clothes, became commander-in-chief, and led the French army to Orléans.
Joan of Arc was only 17 years old.
For this matter, perhaps many people are surprised by this, how can a grand French Empire be reduced to letting a rural girl lead the army to fight?
Speaking of which, we have to say about France's "humiliating" history.
At that time in France, the country was in a miasma of smoke, the parties were vying for power and profit, and the government had reached the point of no return. The successive defeats of the war have completely lost confidence in the royal family, and the morale of the army and the people has been low.
In the midst of extreme pessimism and despair, people had no choice but to give a free hand, and let a teenage country boy who had never brought soldiers to the battlefield be the commander of the French army.
Joan of Arc in battle armor
In the case that everyone is not optimistic and thinks that there is no good ending, the girl leads the army and fights a victory that feels incredible.
In 1428, the English army marched on Orléans. Orléans is an important military stronghold of France, and once it is occupied, France will face the possibility of losing it. Joan of Arc took the initiative to lead his army to the battlefield of Orleans to kill the enemy, and soon killed a gap and repelled the British army.
On April 29, 1429, Joan of Arc arrived at the battlefield where the English and French armies were engaged, and relied on his agile, flexible, and changeable military command skills to quickly turn the tide of the war, so that the French army gradually turned defeat into victory.
In July of the same year, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, the French finally crushed the British siege.
On 17 July, Prince Charles finally held a coronation ceremony at the cathedral and ascended the throne, known as Charles VII. And the legendary French heroine Joan of Arc stood by his throne.
Joan of Arc became a hero of the French people, and his prestige grew day by day, which aroused the jealousy and suspicion of the royal family, and the French feudal lords plotted against Joan of Arc in an attempt to betray Joan of Arc.
In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by French nobles in collusion with the British in a battle and sold to the English for £10,000.
In order to destroy the French will to fight and destroy the young girl who was regarded as a national hero by the French, the British deliberately found a priest of French nationality to destroy Joan of Arc by hand of the French.
In the end, Joan of Arc was crowned with the grounds of blasphemy of women dressed as men, was convicted of infidelity, and on May 31, 1431, was taken to a large square in the city of Rouen, where he was burned at the stake for being a "pagan" or a "witch."
At the time of his death, he was only 19 years old.
After Joan of Arc's tragic sacrifice, the French people were in a deep mood and the mood of national struggle was rising day by day. After more than 20 years of resistance, the French people finally drove out the British invaders and regained their territory.
In 1920, the Roman Catholic Church posthumously honored Joan of Arc as a "Holy Virgin" and designated the Day of her martyrdom as its day of remembrance.
To this day, Joan of Arc is still the great french national hero in the hearts of the French.
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Du Fu once said: "Death before the master is successful, and the hero is full of tears", presumably this word is also appropriate for Joan of Arc.
A rural girl, although she came from a humble background and did not receive a systematic education, had great ambitions, worried about the country and the people, and was full of patriotic enthusiasm. At the time of the country's greatest crisis, he stepped forward and used his heroic fighting spirit and wisdom to repel the enemy army and recover the lost ground.
A teenage young girl can do such a general thing, which is not only comparable to the eldest husband.
Such a brave and righteous person, in the end, was framed by the "adulterer" and burned alive in the name of religion, which made people can't help but sigh.
But no matter what, Joan of Arc lived for 19 years, and finally "bowed down to the country, and died later", this spirit of sacrificing himself to become the whole world is really admirable!
Resources:
"The Next 5,000 Years of the World"
Reading World History with Chronology
Heroes Story
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