Deep Dives It was hardly an auspicious beginning, when the sixteen-year-old girl calling herself Jeanne la Pucelle arrived at the French court in February of 1429. Here was a young woman, a provincial illiterate in men’s clothes and with her hair cut short, who claimed to have been sent by God. While working in her garden in the village of Domrémy, she had received a series of ecstatic visions, all instructing her to drive out the English invade…
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