Joan of Arc?

Question

I was recently reading information on Joan of Arc and I decided to possibly do a small study and I was hoping I could start by getting the opinions of others, helpful websites, possibly details that could have been or where left out, please say if you are uncertain of any facts.... Thank You for Your Help

Some people did not obviously read the entire quetion! Your opinion on Joan is wanted! You! I dont need books or authors (thanks any ways). What do you think of the things she did and Joan as a person!?

Answer 1

Okay, I'll oblige you. I have seen a Joan of Arc movie when I was a kid.... more than 50 years ago... and what I recall from that is her burning at a stake. I have also seen recent movies on her (I have two DVDs) and I have not bothered surfing the web nor read any one Jean d'Arc. So you are getting what I think based on her movies and other stock knowledge I have collected over the last half century.

I believe the French must consider her a great heroine of their country. She stopped the English, didn't she? Is this why the English and the French never see eye to eye?

More important, having been condemned by the church and later canonized as a saint is really something. I am sorry as I have not gotten much data on why this happened but knowing the church, the reasons must be pretty strong for it to have reversed the judgment. Or could it be political? I

Answer 2

There is this invention you may have heard of. It's called a BOOK. It's like stuff that you might find on the internet, although a little more credible. You can even get them free at the library.
Try some of these:
Joan of Arc : the early debate
Fraioli, Deborah A.

France in the Middle Ages 987-1460 : from Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc
Duby, Georges.

Joan of Arc : the image of female heroism
Warner, Marina

New aspects of the case history of Jeanne d'Arc
Quicherat, Jules Étienne Joseph

The Maiden of Orleans : a romantic tragedy
Schiller, Friedrich

Joan of Arc
Williams, Jay

There are more of course. But you get the idea.

Answer 3

In Reims, France, world famous for its bubbly champagnes, that's where Joan D'Arc attended the coronation of Charles VII after she led the French Army to defeat the English who wanted to see a Bourbon king on the French throne. King Charles VII was forever grateful to her for her military leadership that gave him the throne. Yet Joan D'Arc was later captured by the English in Compiegne, a small French city, about 60 miles away from Paris, and tied to the stake and burned. Today, there's a statue of Joan D'Arc on horseback outside of the Reims Cathedral.

Answer 4

Interesting tidbit. Some four years after her execution, there was a woman of the same name and age married in a nearby town. Some have suggested that perhaps Jean did not die at all.

Answer 5

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St. Joan of Arc was born at Domrémy circa January 6, 1412. Citing a mandate from God to drive the English out of France, she was eventually given an escort to bring her before Charles of Ponthieu (later known as King Charles VII). After gaining the approval of the Church scholars at Poitiers in March of 1429, she was granted titular command of an army which quickly lifted the siege of Orléans on May 8, 1429, captured Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire, and Beaugency in mid-June, and defeated an English army at Patay on June 18. After accepting the surrender of the city of Troyes and other towns, the army escorted Charles to the city of Rheims for his coronation on July 17. An unsuccessful attack was made on Paris on September 8, followed by the successful capture of St-Pierre-le-Moutier on November 4. As a reward for her service, Charles VII granted her noble status along with her family on December 29, 1429. She returned to the field the following year, despite predicting her own defeat. Captured at Compiègne on May 23, 1430 and transferred to the English, she was placed on trial in Rouen by a selected group of pro-English clergy, many of whom nevertheless had to be coerced into voting for a guilty verdict. Convicted and executed on May 30, 1431, she was subsequently declared innocent by the Inquisition on July 7, 1456 after a lengthy re-trial process which was initiated shortly after the English were finally driven from Rouen, thereby allowing access to the documents and witnesses associated with her trial; the presiding Inquisitor, Jean Bréhal, ruled that the original trial had been tainted by fraud, illegal procedures, and intimidation of both the defendant and many of the clergy who had taken part in the trial, and she was therefore described as a martyr by the Inquisitor. After the usual lengthy delay associated with the sluggish process of canonization, she was beatified on April 11, 1909 and canonized as a saint on May 16, 1920.

Answer 6

a little detail: the 3 persons who had the most blame of Joan's dead died also strange, the one died when they cut his hair, the other was found dead on the street(it were rich people) and another one I think dissapeared

Answer 7

Have you used Wikipedia? They're pretty good about that kind of thing. Just make sure to double check it.

Answer 8

She was the subject of the first ever wrongful death suit. Really!

Answer 9

There is an amazing search engine called Google. This is for when you cannot get other people to do your work for you, and you have to do it yourself. Give it a try. I know it works! You're welcome.

Answer 10

Slightly insane, powerful women, inspirational, death was wrong.