632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1)

Just a little girl, only sixteen years old. Isn't this something miraculous? Wielding her weapons as though they weighed nothing at all. Indeed, she seems to have been raised for just such a moment, so strong she is, and resolute, Her enemies stumble in flight before her.

Not one of them can stand up to her, and all this she does before the gaze of the world. She drives her foes out of France. She recaptures castles and towns. Never has anyone seen such formidable deeds. Not hundreds, not thousands of men can compare with her.

Of our brave and able warriors, she is the chief captain. Neither Hector nor Achilles can rival her prowess, but it is God who has wrought this God who leads her on. So that's a poem written in july fourteen twenty nine. It would astound people to know that that poem was written by a French woman, a French woman, one of the most remarkable women, according to Tom Holland. in medieval history.

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