1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1a.1b.1b.1.1.1.1b.1.1.1c.1b.1b.1.1.1.1.1.2.1a Charles VII de Valois , King of France (1422)* 
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Birth |
22 FEB 1402/03, PARIS, FRANCE |
Death |
BET. 22 JUL 1451 - 1461, MEHUN-SUR-YEVRE, FRANCE |
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JOAN OF ARC INSPIRED FRENCH RESISTANCE
Joan of Arc, a spepherdess of peasant stock, began a campaign in 1429 to unify FRANCE and drive out its ENGLISH invaders. The ENGLISH and their allies controlled most of FRANCE, and the French throne was in dispute. One claimant, Charles VII, was an uninspiring leader of little military experience. Joan came to him proclaiming that since 13, she had heard saints' voices telling her to liberate FRANCE and have Charles crowned. Won over, Charles put her at the head of thousands of soldiers. She galvanized dispirited troops and led them to ORLEANS, where they broke and ENGLISH siege. Other military victories followed, but during a 1430 campaign, Joan was captured, tried on sorcery charges and burned at the stake. But Joan had given FRANCE a new sense of nationhood and purpose.
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