Biography on Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc also called the maid of Orleans, a patron saint of France and a national heroine, led the struggle to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War. She was the third of five to a farmer named Jacques Darc and his wife Isabelle de Vouthon in the town of Domremy on the border of provinces of Champagne and Lorraine. During most of her childhood she attended her father's herd in the fields and learning religion and housekeeping skills from her mother.
When Joan was approximately 12 years old, she began hearing "voices" of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret believing them to have been sent by God. These very same voices told her to free her country from the English and help the Dauphin gain the French throne. She was told by them to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up the arms.
By 1429 the English with the help of their Burgundian allies occupied Paris and all of France north of the Loire. The......
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