Scene #1888.
FRANCE. Orleans 2017.
Jean d'Arc. This annual festival, now remarkably been celebrated for over 600 years, is a celebration of the liberation of the city of Orleans by Joan of Arc during the 'Hundred Years War'. Riding at the head of her army, she relieved the English siege of the city and later defeated the English army of Lord Talbot outright at the battle of Patay. On 24 May, 1430 Joan was captured by the Burgundians and later 'sold' to the English. Charles VII of France, whose crown she had fought to save, turned his back on her and in May 1431, after a show trial, Joan of Arc was burned alive at the stake at the age of 19.She was canonised in 1920.