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=** media type="youtube" key="gX8o6QB1FSk" height="283" width="378" Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Heaven) **= 1412-1431



 Background - Joan Of Arc was a peasant girl. She was daughter of Jacques D' Arc & Isabelle Rome'eo. She was born in the year 1412 in a village of Domremy in the northeastern France. Her nick name was ( The maid of or leans & La Pucelle ). Her father wanted her to marry, but she said she wanted to follow Gods calling. People say she was burned to death.  Childhood - Joan of Arc was highly religious, courageous, and very determined.At a young age (13 or 14) she began to hear "voices". She claimed that the voices of saints had told her she was called on by god to aid for her country. When she was about 16, the voices exhorted her to bear aid to the dauphin, later King Charles VII, then kept from the throne by the English in the Hundred Year War.  Education - Joan of Arc received no formal education although her mother did teach her religious ways. She often went to church everyday. Career/jobs -  Joan military career extended across a year, including some six months of inactivity. During this brief time she took part in ten or more military actions, including three at Orleans, and was twice as wonderful. Achievments - She did not want to hurt anyone but she believed she had been choosen to lead the army of France in battles with England.When she went to fight she took no weapon but only a banner. She saved her country from being taken over by the English. She turned around a war that had been going on for almost a hundred years and France was about to lose. The English soldiers were afraid of her because they felt she had super natural power. Sometimes people would just give up then face her in battle. She dresed in men's clothing and cut her hair short so she would not be reconized on the open roads.

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