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  1. 5 days ago · St. Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France. She was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans in 1429 that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred YearsWar .

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  2. 3 days ago · May 30, 2024. 17772. 26. Saint Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class, at the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she heard voices: those of St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret.

  3. 3 days ago · By Associated Press. May 30, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. Today is Thursday, May 30, the 151st day of 2024. There are 215 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc ...

  4. 3 days ago · May 30, 2024. St. Joan of Arc. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc (or Jeanne d’Arc, as she is known in France) was born to pious parents of the French peasant class, at the obscure village of Domrémy, near the province of Lorraine. Joan seems to have been the youngest of a family of five. She never learned to read or write, but was skilled in ...

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    2 days ago · France. Signature. Joan of Arc ( French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.

  6. 5 days ago · circa July 16, 1836. Birthplace: Württemberg, Tubingen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Death: January 12, 1871 (30-38) Philadelphia, PA, United States (@36 years of age, possibly after childbirth of daughter Rosina...or Typhoid Fever) Place of Burial: Philadelphia, PA, United States. Immediate Family:

  7. 1 day ago · Eberhard Ludwig (1676–1733), Herzog von Württemberg; Magdalena Wilhelmine von Württemberg (1677–1742), Markgräfin; Beata Sturm (1682–1730), Pietistin; Karl Alexander (1684–1737), Herzog von Württemberg; Wilhelm Christian Gmelin (1684–1746), Geistlicher; Christoph Matthäus Pfaff (1686–1760), evangelischer Theologe