The Crime At Compiegne
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Proving herself to be a good deal more than ordinary, Jeanne d'Arc,
the Maid of Orleans and patron saint of France, united her nation at a
critical hour in history and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in
France's favor, forever ending England's dreams of hegemony over France.
The crimes and ....
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.... Heaven. At only 13,
Jeanne began hearing voices that were sometimes accompanied by visions.
She was convinced that these voices were those of St. Michael and the early
martyrs St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret. These voices
exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France,
recapture the city of Orleans and thereby win the Hundred Years' War
against England. Jeanne succeeded in convincing Charles and his board of
theologians that she had a divine mission to sav ....
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