Joan of Arc

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Joan of Arc

• Isai Ibarra
• Walter W. Stiern
• Ms. Marshall
• Standard HSS 7.6

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Joans Early life

• Born at Domremy, France
• Jacques D'Arc (Joans father) was a poor peasant
  father
• Joan was the youngest of the family
• She never learned how to read or wright.
• As a child she spent most of her time praying in
  the church

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Joans Visions

• At age 13,summer of 1425 she started having
  visions of Saint Margret and Saint Catherine but
  never say anything about them.
• Later she says it was a message from god. This
  massage urged her to Robert Baudricourt (who
  commanded Charles VII in the neighboring town of
  Vaucoulers)
• Baudricourt rejected her request of her request
  of helping France during the Hundred-Years-War.

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Joans Visions call for action

• While the military and King Charles grew more
  disparate.
• Orleans was 12 October,1428.By close defeat
  seemed imminent.
• By this time Joans voice's seemed urgent and
  threatening. She says she did not know how to
  fight but god commanded it so she had to.

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Joans Exception into the French Army

• While the military and King Carrel's grew more
  desperate and then the problem with Orleans was
  very bad because defeat seemed imminent
• As Joan stayed, she slowly made an impression on
  Baudricourt, and on February it was announced
  that there was a great defeat on Orleans.
• At this statement she was finally urged to
  present herself to the King of Chinon.

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Joans Exception into the French Army (cont.)

• As she made her way to the King she was Dressed
  as a man for protection, and she made sure no one
  knew she was a girl.
• King of Chinon later excepted her and she was
  knighted

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Joans Campaign

• Before Joan went into a full out war, she had a
  short campaign to complete
• She was sent to popes and bishops to be examined.

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Joans Campaign (cont.)

• Joans campaign began at the city of Loire, which
  (after a series of success) soon ended on June 18
  with the great victory of Paty.

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Joans Mission

• Her first mission was to take Paris.
• Defeating Paris was one of the hardest wars to
  fight. It was protected by high walls and a moat.
  To get across the French Army had to cross the
  moat and set up ladders to climb the wall. While
  Joan was crossing the bridge she was shot by an
  archer in the thy.

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Joan gets Captured

• Joan was making a surprise attack Burgundy.
• She took 400 men to attack the city but they
  where ambushed and Joan was captured.

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Joan is a Prisoner

• Joan was captured and put into a prison were her
  head was shaved and she was guarded by English
  soliders.
• She was later trialed by judges that found her
  guilty.

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Joans Death

• She was found guilty for claiming that she talked
  to god and that she dressed as a man.
• She was given the option to sign a paper that
  said she would follow the churchs teachings. She
  signed it, but she was sentenced to life in
  prison but she soon doomed herself again by
  putting on men's clothing and on May 30, 1431 she
  was torched at the stake and died at age 19

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Bibliography

• http//www.joanofarc.info/
• http//www.newadvent.org/
• Stanley, Diane. Joan of Arc. New York Morrow
  Junior Books, 1998