History & Society
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Also known as: La Pucelle d’Orléans, Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, The Maid of Orléans
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- Byname:
- the Maid of Orléans
- French:
- Sainte Jeanne d’Arc or La Pucelle d’Orléans
- Born:
- c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France
- Died:
- May 30, 1431, Rouen
- Role In:
- Hundred Years’ War
- Siege of Orléans
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St. Joan of Arc (born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France—died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May) national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. She became the greatest national heroine of her compatriots, and her achievement was ...(100 of 4601 words)