Happy ending for Joan of Arc, she was saved by the English? (1 Viewer)

[Born2baplacebo]

For centuries, Joan of Arc has been seized on by politicians looking for patriotic martyr figures, including by Nicolas Sarkozy during his presidential campaign.
Now a new book has sparked anger among historians by claiming the Maid of Orleans was not an illiterate peasant but a royal. She did not hear voices and was not burned at the stake, but escaped with the help of English soldiers and went on to live a happily married life.
In L'Affaire Jeanne d'Arc, the French investigative journalist Marcel Gay and a former secret service agent, Roger Senzig, claim Joan was the illegitimate daughter of the French queen consort Isabeau of Bavaria, who groomed her as a political puppet. They claim she was manipulated in a cover-up they call Operation Virgin.
Joan was not inspired by voices from heaven to lead troops to miraculously lift the siege of Orleans and save France. Gay says she was trained for warfare, taught languages and well-educated for her mission.
After her trial for heresy in 1431, she escaped, and an unknown woman was burned in her place. She later married a French knight, Robert des Armoises.
"She spoke English and it was the English who saved her from the stake," Gay said. "Everything we were taught at school was wrong."
French medievalists have rubbished the book, saying it rehashes discredited ideas to satisfy a booming audience of conspiracy theorists intent on dismantling the Joan of Arc story.
The publisher said the work fitted the trend for The Da Vinci Code-style investigations debunking official history. Joan of Arc has inspired an industry, with more than 20,000 books published in France, around 50 films and, recently, video games.
This year forensic scientists carried out tests on Joan's "relics" - bones and linen fragments discovered in the attic of a Paris pharmacy in 1867. Analysis later showed the bones actually belonged to someone who died between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC and was mummified in a way typical of ancient Egypt.
Olivier Bouzy, a medieval historian and co-director of the Joan of Arc centre in Orleans, said of the new book: "These theories have been knocked down 100 times.
"This is about people who are not historians, who don't understand the mentality of the Middle Ages, looking for a contemporary explanation.."

wow. talk about screw ups in history.

 

[Tulipa]

Wow, consider how gullible you are.

I wouldn't take this all as fact. Also gotta love:

French medievalists have rubbished the book, saying it rehashes discredited ideas to satisfy a booming audience of conspiracy theorists intent on dismantling the Joan of Arc story.
The publisher said the work fitted the trend for The Da Vinci Code-style investigations debunking official history.

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Olivier Bouzy, a medieval historian and co-director of the Joan of Arc centre in Orleans, said of the new book: "These theories have been knocked down 100 times.
"This is about people who are not historians, who don't understand the mentality of the Middle Ages, looking for a contemporary explanation.."

 

[chicky_pie]

pfft the book is just rumours that has been talked about over and over with no back up evidence. IMO Joan of Arc has to be one of the greatest chik every lived on this planet, for some1 to stand up for her country is a brave thing, among horny frenchmen & englishmen


GO JOAN OF ARC

 

[Gilbert1]

Its pretty cool which ever version of the story is. I love the story of Joan

 

[Billy Corgan]

I'm waiting for a French civil war to break out because of this book.