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Saint Joan of Arc lived in France around 1412 - 1431.

She is the patron saint of France.

Joan is remembered by the French because she led the French to a decisive victory over the English.

Joan of Arc was a French national heroine who became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was a simple peasant girl who rescued France from defeat in one of the darkest periods of the Hundred Years War with England.

Her great triumph was to lead a French army against the English who had laid seige to the city of Orléans. During one battle the English captured her and handed her over to the French who accused her of heresy and tied her to the stake and burnt her.

Some years later, the church examined her life story and established her as a saint.

Bibliography

World Book and Encarta.

 

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