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Inspiring figures of history: Jeanne d’Arc

Introduction

It is the 29 April 1429.

English troops have been besieging Orléans, a city situated on the powerful Loire river in north-central France, for over six months.

The French royal army faces once more its main adversary in a gruesome and convoluted conflict which is smoldering for several decades now (this long period of consecutive military campaigns will later be referred to as Hundred Years’ War1 by historians) … read more