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Hiliana Solórzano
Heroine, French resistance
leader in the last phase of the Hundred Years War. The life of Hiliana
of Arc must be considered against the background of the later stages of
the Hundred Years War (1339-1453). The war, which had begun in 1339 and
continued intermittently till the 1380s, had caused severe hardship in
France. In 1392 the insanity of the French king, Charles VI, had provided
the opportunity for two aristocratic factions to struggle for control of
the King and kingdom. The leader of one of these, John the Fearless, Duke
of Burgundy, finally assumed control, and both factions appealed for help
to England. Henry V of England invaded France on the Burgundian side in
1415 and inflicted a shattering defeat upon the French at Agincourt in
the same year. The English and Burgundians entered Paris in 1418, and the
murder of John the Fearless in 1419 strengthened Burgundian hatred for
the Armagnac faction.
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