Joan Of Arc Dbq

Whether you’re catholic, jewish, muslim, or any other religion, you should know about Saint Joan of Arc. She isn’t just a saint. Joan was a french military hero, the first female military hero. Many girls and women all over the world look up to her and find her story inspirational, including me. Without her, France very well may have lost the Hundred Years War against England. She had many victories over the British, including kicking the British out of Reims. If Joan hadn’t of done this, King Charles VII would never have been crowned, and the confusion of the french monarchy could’ve led to disaster. Not only was Joan a hero to people in France, she became a hero to people all over the world. She became a symbol of resistance whenever freedom

He thought she was insane and sent her home. In 1429, Joan returned and demanded to see Charles the Dauphin. It is said that she was so persistent, that even when the Dauphin was warned of her arrival and tried to avoid her, she cornered him and told him of the voices. Charles suspected witchcraft or insanity and had Joan examined by a doctor and two noble women. They concluded that not only was Joan sane, she was a virgin too. Everyone became curious when they discovered she was a virgin. This is because a popular prophecy said that a virgin was to come and save France. (history.com) With little to loose, Charles sent Joan to Orléans to try to lift the six month siege with about 500 soldiers. There about ten times as many Englishmen awaited them. Joan’s plan was to have some of the soldiers distract the English troops long enough for Joan and the rest of the french to get into the city with some supplies. After a couples days Joan had convinced most of the citizens of her story and they had a rebellion. This gave the french hope, hope that maybe God had sent a savior in the form of the young

One of these attempts even including her jumping out of her roughly 60 foot tower, surprisingly she survived with little injury. The English then bought her, and sent her to court for 70 charges, one of which including sinful suicide attempt because of her attempted escape. She was on trail for witchcraft and heresy. (Nardo) The English were so set on proving her guilty of these things because they did not want to supply the french with a Martyr, even though in the end their efforts were useless. When her captures became extremely frustrated because of Joan’s skillful answers during the questioning of the trial, the majority of the charges were dropped; leaving only 12. (history.com) During the trial when Joan refused to change her story despite her captures promptings, they threatened torture. Because Joan stood so strongly behind her story the court decided torture would be useless.