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Battle History of France

Joan of Arc at the famous coupe at Orleans pulled an arrow out of her white armor mounted her white Charger grabbed her blanc silk banner from a page & hastened to lather the horse up to the English bulwark & shouted at Sir William Gladsdale: “Surrender to the King of Heaven!” (15 Decisive Battles of the World, E.S. Creasy p220) The General scoffed & the drawbridge he stood on was hit by another cannon ball just like the one that killed the man he replaced, Lord Salisbury.

Joan of Arc did 2 things, she freed France from English conquest during the 100 Years War & she did it after being burnt to death at an English stake, as a proper Saint should. She did it from on top a horse & laying on her back; bringing her passionate blood into the bloodline of royalty. Bordeaux even was even Brit land, Calais was kept from 1347-1558, battles raged from Boulogne, Crecy, Agincourt, to Limoges. H.G. Wells the writer of the Time machine didn’t have time to describe the intrigues of such protracted conflict, but the Black Prince was replaced by his brother for he resisted the temptation of Joan which the French turned their backs on, giving her to England. Maybe the Black Prince saw something in her. They lost Bordeaux due to his brother’s ineptness, the use of Mongol gunpowder towards cannonry in Calais, but first the Sea battle of Sluys won the channel to make Calais a stomping ground & a military outpost for British outrages in France. English songs arose at the time of the tale of Robin Hood’s emergence to commemorate this period in time the English considered some of France theirs. It was Chaucer’s time to do as Aligheri Dante had done for Petrarch, creating the Italian language in the vernacular with his pen & so Chaucer did the same, writing as people talked at the time, to set the stage for Shakespeare. Latin had become obsolete with the rise of the troubadour due to the accumulation of histories lost & the lack of technology to publish books. But, Joan of Arc put an end English song later perhaps inspiring the Mad Monk Francois Rabelais with a touch of her cursed conversations with God that, seeing as how some Popes do not talk directly to God, anyone who did or does is thought of as insane; when it perhaps is a privilege to open that channel for a moment in life. God apparently doesn’t like talking to humans. The Mad Monk wrote French “like a torrent of burning, shouting, laughing lava, burst through all the dignitaries & decencies of the pedants.” (H.G. Wells p773) Joan’s grandson Charles the VII was a dauphin, a young prospective ruler overseen by a regent advisor. The elder son of Louis XI Charles the VI was mad so Henry V married Joan of Arc’s granddaughter Catherine but died in freeing France quickly. Louis XI was the son of Charles VII & “he brought Burgundy to heel & laid the foundations for a Centralized France” (H.G. Wells p767). Charles VII in 1448 swept the English from France except for Calais. Calais had been taken by treachery with the Flanders & Burgundy areas to unseat France from her own land. The wars with the formidable Scots had let loose an English military demon on France. Instead of jousting in battle the English dismounted & defeated the French knights from their feet. The English Vassal infantry with longbows were also more effective than the powerful but archaic crossbow for it was slower to reload. “The arrows from the English long-bow pierced them & stuck out a yard behind, infantry so armed swept them from the stricken field.” (H.G. Wells p767) But of course it was the heart of one woman that made France a country.