The French during the 100 years had ony lost battles and not driven the English from their land.
Yet, in 1429 a simple country girl joined the French in the very besieged Orleans and led an
attack on Paris. Joan of Arc heard the voices of the Saints in which she claimed told her to drive
the English from France. She inspired the French knights but was burned at the stake as a heretic
in 1431 after being beaten in an English dungeon. She never signed an agreement to forget all of
beliefs and become Roman-Catholic which was The Religon in those days.  As the flames roared
around her she held up a crude cross and simply said "Jesus." After she was burned an English
knight said "We are lost. We have killed a Saint." After that day some might have said the Wrath
of God happened,  for a few years later the French drove the English from France.

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