Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Joan of Arc (French Patriot, Martyr)

St Joan of Arc (c.1412–31,) also Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, known as the Maid of Orleans or La Pucelle d’Orléans, was a French patriot and a martyr of the resistance against the English during the Hundred Years’ War. She became the utmost national heroine of her compatriots. Her feat was a pivotal factor in the later emergence of French national consciousness.

Joan was born the daughter of well-off peasants in Domremy, on the border of Lorraine and Champagne. She had an argumentative nature and shrewd common sense, but received no formal education.

At the age of 13, Joan assumed she heard the voices of St Michael, St Catherine, and St Margaret bidding her to rescue Paris from English domination in the Hundred Years War. She directed the French armies against the English, releasing besieged Orleans (1429.) She ensured that Charles VII could be crowned in previously-invaded Reims.

Detained at Compiegne in northern France by the Burgundians in 1430, Joan was handed over to the English, sentenced to heresy, and burnt at stake in the marketplace of Rouen on 30-May-1431.

Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920. Her Feast day is 30 May. She is a familiar figure in literature and the arts. Notable biographies include Anne Barstow’s Joan of Arc (1986) and Edward Lucie-Smith’s Joan of Arc (1977.)

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I am not afraid… I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince
Joan of Arc
Topics: Arguments

I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that’s more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc
Topics: Being True to Yourself, Belief, Living

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