WHAT WERE THE CHARACTER TRAITS OF JOAN OF ARC
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St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
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Fellow and Tutor in History, St. John's College, Oxford; Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford. Author of War and Chivalry and others.
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Alternative Titles: La Pucelle d’Orléans, Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, The Maid of Orléans
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St. Joan of Arc, 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; 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 a decisive factor in the later awakening of French national consciousness.