Malcolm G.A. Vale
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Fellow and Tutor in History, St. John's College, Oxford; Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford. Author of War and Chivalry and others.
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St. Joan of Arc ; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May) is a national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in 1429 to momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English…
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