Joan of Arc
Gone Medieval
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The French and the French Language
She has this really strong anti burgundian sense. She's very self consciously actually trying to kind of cultivate a sense that france is a thing, and that it's something of great value to be french. There's an amazing letter which she wrote, or dictated, to the duke of burgundy later on in her short career. And she's basically pleading with him to come back to what she then calls the french side,. Because he shouldn't be allying with the english, because that's a sort of betrayal.
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