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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- French military leader and mystic who organized the French resistance against the English at the siege of Orléans, led an army of 12,000 to Rheims, and had the dauphin crowned Charles VII (1429). Captured and sold to the English by the Burgundians (1430), she was tried for heresy and sorcery and was burned at the stake in Rouen.
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- noun French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431)
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Examples
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Can we wonder that she is known as the Joan of Arc of Roumania?
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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St. Catherine of Siena, canonized in 1461, is the patroness of the Third Order, and, following the example of her who has been called the Joan of Arc of the papacy, the Dominican tertiaries have always manifested special devotion to the Roman
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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This question brought ravages upon France, and kept her fortunes in suspense for a hundred years of war with England, from the reign of Philip of Valois to that of Charles VII.; and a young girl of Lorraine, called Joan of Arc, had the glory of communicating to France that decisive impulse which brought to a triumphant issue the independence of the French nation and kingship.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Can't believe you left out Joan of Arc, which is kind of the most interesting one in my opinion.
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Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is a opera/oratorio Einhorn composed for Carl Dryer's 1927 silent film.
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I have a similar problem with Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Chicago Reader 2009
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I have a similar problem with Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Chicago Reader 2009
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I have a similar problem with Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Chicago Reader 2009
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I have a similar problem with Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Chicago Reader 2009
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I have a similar problem with Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Chicago Reader 2009
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