The Siege of Orléans (In Our Time)
1429 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Orléans, when Joan of Arc came to the rescue of France and, as the story goes, routed the English army with the help of God before the English burnt her as a heretic in Rouen marketplace. The truth involves French court politics, dynastic claims, mass religious hysteria and English military and political incompetence.
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