WHO IS: Jeanne D'Arc ?
(1412 – 30th May1431)
She is a French national hero and catholic saint with a lot of legends and superstitions about her. Half of what is told about is real, half is legend, and because these are well blended in history, people often have a hard time understanding what information is legend and which is historical.
Jeanne d'Arc (in English it is also written as Joan of Arc, in Turkish sometimes simplified and as Jan Dark.)
Jeanne d'Arc was born in 1412 in the village of Domremy, located on the Maas (Meuse) River in eastern France. Her father was one of the foremost ranch owners in the village. Jeanne was illiterate, but she was a very religious girl and began to see the pain and misery in the land she had lived in from a young age.
At the end of the Hundred Years War between France and Britain, in these years when the suffering of the war was expected to subside, the British were about to take over France.
King Henry V of England, who won the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, married the daughter of the king of France and took control of the north of France. According to an agreement made, the king of England was considered the king of France.
There was a common belief among the people that a girl would save France.
Although the British began to decline in the war after Henry's death in 1422, it was Jan Dark who actually united the French.
Jean, who lived an ordinary life until 1425, began to wander the country from one side to the other disguised as a man, claiming that the virgin mary spoke to her and told her to be given a king to save the city of Orleans and France. Also, she manages to gather around the people who see herself as a saint, a savior.
According to other references:
She claims to speak with angels.
But psychologists attribute this to the harsh family structure and the suffering she suffered. The French are divided on this issue and many want to believe that this women, who played a leading role in their liberation struggle, spoke to the angels.
In other way, yhey thought she had epilepsy.
She also joined the army after seeing himself in her dream, sword in hand, on the battlefield. She chose to remain a virgin until he died, believing that he was chosen for this holy duty.
Realizing that this figure could unite the people in 1429, she met with the crown prince Charles at the Chinon castle and joined forces with her. Jeanne enters the service of Charles, armed with arms at the Poitiers, where Charlemagne once won a great victory over the Arabs that same year. the event is a successful propaganda work that, with all its symbolism, will save Charles the young Charlemagne from the re-occupation of France and Jeanne as her divine guardian angel.
As a result, propaganda has a positive effect. Jeanne was just like a mascot, Charles's French army defeats the British and Bourgogne forces, which have sustained a tiring siege for a long time, and saves the city of Orleans, which is symbolically important rather than strategic. Jean's being at the forefront during the war and surviving despite being injured in the shoulder causes the figure, who is increasingly wearing a divine guise, to become more elevated in the public eye.
The last track of leonard cohen's album "Songs of Love and Hate" dated 1971 ..
"i saw her wince, i saw her cry,
i saw the glory in her eye.
myself i long for love and light,
but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright? "
Jeanne d'Arc was sent to the city of Compiégne, which was besieged by the Duchy of Bourgogne in 1431, with a weak unit that could not have carried out the siege at all, and was captured by the Bourgogne and the British forces as a result of the movement's failure.
Jeanne sold to the British is brought before the Inquisition in the city of Rouen. The accusations against her are in the direction of infidelity because of the claim that she spoke to God.
The British who do not want to start a rebellion or strengthen the French resistance is against her execution.
However, the inquisition, who judged Jeanne twice and could make her confess neither Mary's voice nor her sin, is not of the same opinion.
As a result, Jeanne d'Arc was burned and executed by the Inquisition in the same year.
