Influence. Everyone wants it; everyone has it; but only few can wield it on the level that Joan of Arc did. Learn how she went from a nobody from nowhere to becoming the original influencer all the while changing the course of Europe forever.
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Centuries Collide | Cody Crouch: Joan Of Arc - The Original Influencer | Centuries Collide | January 30, 2025
- - i am cody crouch.
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- I'm traveling the globe, uncovering the origins of
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- The stuff that we use every day. on centuries
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- Collide, we're creating some of history's
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- Greatest moments
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- Exactly how they happen.
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- - well, almost exactly.
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- - the gutenberg press. [crickets chirping]
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- - charge!
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- - this is history like you've never seen it before.
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- ♪♪
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- These days,
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- There's a term for someone who can shape the
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- Trends of popular culture.
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- That term is naturally influencer, but this is
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- Just new lingo for an age old phenomenon.
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- People have been influencing other people,
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- Well, as long as there's been people.
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- Today's influencers can determine what's cool in
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- Areas like lifestyle, fashion, or philosophy.
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- But none of today's influencers can compare
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- To a teenage girl from the middle ages, a young
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- Woman who wielded her influence from a
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- Countryside farming village to the
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- Battlefield of two clashing nations,
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- Eventually defining much of europe as we
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- Know it today.
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- She immediately became a symbol of unshakable
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- Devotion to god in her country.
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- Her unlikely influence on her culture is still a
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- Powerful example of strength for people
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- Everywhere.
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- Buckle up.
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- It's time for centuries collide.
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- ♪♪
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- Over the last few years as social media has taken
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- Over the cultural scene, one of its aspects i find
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- Interesting is the rapidly expanding idea
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- Of influence.
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- I'm right here in paris, france, the fashion
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- Capital of the world, where trends and
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- Trendsetters come to make their mark to define
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- What's cool and what isn't.
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- As we all know, simply being cool can now pay
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- The bills.
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- If you're young enough, cool enough and
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- Attractive enough, you can make a living simply
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- By posting pictures and videos on the internet to
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- Influence the direction of popular culture.
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- But long ago, back in the 15th century, the only
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- Ones who really got to influence culture were
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- The ruling elite, people who lived in places like
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- This, kings and noblemen, those who came from
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- Money, power, and prestige. and always men,
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- Never women. and definitely never teenage
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- Farm girls.
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- So in the 1400s illiterate teenage farm
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- Girls had next to no chance of wielding any
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- Kind of influence whatsoever other than
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- Maybe where to plant the next row of crops, and
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- That is what makes her story so amazing.
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- We're talking about a teenage girl who went
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- From a nobody from nowhere to finding herself inside
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- The council of kings.
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- This chick was so bad at the bone that she
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- Didn't need instagram or a bikini and duck lips to
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- Wield her thoughts.
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- All she needed was god on her side and a sword in
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- Her hand.
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- We're talking about joan of ark.
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- Joan was born and raised right here in the town of
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- Domremy, france in january of 1412, which
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- Just happens to be right smack dab in the middle
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- Of one of the bloodiest times in european history.
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- Europe was in the middle of the hundred years war,
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- Which was a big, fat, complicated mess.
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- For over a century, france and england had
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- Been continuously fighting to expand their
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- Kingdoms, and this war had been raging for, you
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- Guessed it, a hundred years.
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- That's like almost too long to even conceive.
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- Joan would've witnessed her village being raided
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- And attacked.
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- She would've personally experienced the ravages
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- Of war.
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- But like many others, joan's family just tried
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- To keep living their lives as normally as
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- Possible, but normal wouldn't last very long.
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- It was here when joan of arc was 13 years old,
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- Tending the farmlands that she started
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- Experiencing what she described as
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- Supernatural visions.
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- - hello, joan.
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- Please don't be afraid.
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- - oh, i'm not afraid of anything.
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- - i'm here because i have a message.
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- You, my friend, have a mission. - a mission?
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- - hello, joan.
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- Do not be afraid.
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- - are you my fairy godmother?
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- I'm st. catherine. expel the english from your
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- Land and crown prince charles the vii,
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- King of france.
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- God will help you do this.
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- - okay.
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- - hello, joan.
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- I'm st. margaret.
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- - let me guess you're here to tell me about
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- My mission.
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- - no, i'm here --
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- - i know, i know.
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- Expel the english and crown prince charles as king.
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- I already talked to st. catherine and
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- St. michael.
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- Just tell god i get it and i'm in.
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- - all right.
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- - over the next three years, three figures,
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- St. michael, st. catherine and
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- St. margaret told joan to expel the english army
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- Out of france and crown the rightful french king
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- Prince charles vii.
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- Now, these visions have been debated and disputed,
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- Both in our modern times and well, even more so
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- In hers.
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- But as we'll see, she never doubted.
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- She believed in her calling all the way
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- To death.
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- Sorry.
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- Spoiler alert.
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- At the age of 16, after her father attempted to
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- Arrange a marriage for her, she successfully
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- Convinced a local court that she shouldn't be
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- Forced to accept the match.
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- She basically declared independence from her
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- Family, which was a very dangerous thing for a
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- Woman to do in the middle ages.
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- - daddy, i don't want to marry him.
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- - why?
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- - well, first of all, i don't even love him.
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- - that's okay.
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- I didn't love your mother.
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- I don't even know if i still do.
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- - i knew it.
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- I knew you didn't love her.
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- - it's okay.
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- - that's besides the point.
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- Second of all, i'm not just some girl who dreams
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- The cooking and cleaning her whole life.
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- - okay, well, there's other things you can do.
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- There's barn animals that you can raise and crops
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- And all that kind of stuff.
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- - no, daddy, daddy, daddy.
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- I have a mission, okay?
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- And that mission does not include marriage.
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- Okay?
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- Okay.
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- Here. you take that.
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- Oh, you're so handsome.
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- Love you, daddy.
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- - love you too. okay --
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- - and thus started joan's odyssey of
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- Influence that would end with her becoming
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- A saint.
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- But first it would lead her to the court of
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- Prince charles vii.
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- But how does a peasant girl get an audience with
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- A prince? a glass slipper, a fairy
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- Godmother?
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- No, not joan.
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- First, she had to become an influencer.
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- She went to the local town and demanded that
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- The commander of the garrison take her to see
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- The heir to the french throne.
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- Well, like any good self-respecting 15th
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- Century man, he just laughed at her right to
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- Her face.
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- [raucous laughter]
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- - but joan didn't give up.
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- She started what we call nowadays a
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- Grassroots campaign.
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- She rallied the people with stories of her
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- Visions and hope for france's future.
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- - let my life be an influence to you.
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- I'm on a mission from god. you guys,
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- I'm not here to win a popularity contest,
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- Although if i did, it would be like, totally okay.
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- - yeah, i think she's doing a great job.
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- - not sure about that.
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- - well, it's a tough job she's got
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- Man's world, you know.
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- - as she gained the support of local leaders,
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- The count felt the pressure and agreed to
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- Provide her with an escort to the royal
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- Court in the city of shannon.
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- Upon arrival here in shannon, joan intended to
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- Meet with the prince or the dauphin.
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- But prince charles the seventh, was disguised
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- For his own protection.
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- Now, what the heck is that all about?
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- Well, here's a snapshot of the a hundred years
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- War of catch up speed.
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- First off, henry, the v was the king of england.
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- King charles the vi, we'll call him the mad king,
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- Ruled france.
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- Now, why are we calling him the mad king?
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- Well, he was crazy.
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- At one point he thought he was actually made
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- Of glass.
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- Henry the v forcibly pressured the mad king to
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- Let him marry his daughter, the french
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- Princess, thus making henry the ruler of france.
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- After that he died. this arrangement left
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- Prince charles vii removed from the succession of
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- The french throne.
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- But here's where things get interesting.
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- After mary, all henry, the v had to do is
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- Outlive the mad king, and then he would become
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- The king of both england and france.
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- Boom, game over.
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- But guess what?
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- Henry v contracts
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- Dysentery and suddenly drops dead
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- At 35 years old.
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- About two weeks later, the mad king dies.
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- Boom, game over. with both kings dead,
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- There were only two legitimate heirs to the
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- French throne, henry fifth's.
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- Nine month old baby and prince charles vii.
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- Of course, this divides france even further
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- Causing even more internal chaos.
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- There was kidnappings, betrayals, and
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- Assassinations happening left and right, and that
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- Is why prince charles vii was disguised when joan
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- Showed up right here to the royal court,
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- Which brings us to another miraculous event.
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- Joan having no way of knowing what prince
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- Charles vii looks like, walks right up to
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- Him and addresses him even though he's
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- Disguised amongst his other nobleman.
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- - prince charles, i'm at your service.
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- - i think she's talking to you.
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- - me? - you.
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- - how did you know it was me?
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- You must hear from god.
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- - i'm on a mission from the lord.
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- I've had visions of french victory and you as
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- Rightful king.
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- - i like what she's saying. - but listen, in
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- Order to make that happen, i kind of need
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- You to put me in charge of the army.
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- Okay?
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- - a teenage girl in charge of the army.
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- [raucous laughter]
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- I would be the laughing stock of europe.
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- - well, i'm not the one wearing clown hair, sir.
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- - the prince was obviously shocked at
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- Joan's divine discernment and agreed to
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- Hear about her mission to help the french at the
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- Siege of orleans, and according to her, be put
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- In charge, right?
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- But she was just a teenage girl, so that
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- Wasn't going to happen.
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- Prince charles vii was running out of options.
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- - we're really running out of options, sir.
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- - i'll tell you what, if you can break the siege
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- At orleans, surely god is on your side.
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- - but she's a girl.
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- - and maybe so, but she has heard from god,
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- So if she dies,
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- She's just a woman.
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- - that's a win-win.
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- That's win-win.
- 00:11:42.701 --> 00:11:43.469
- Everybody.
- 00:11:43.469 --> 00:11:45.337
- Thumbs up. what?
- 00:11:45.337 --> 00:11:49.742
- - he finally decided if she could
- 00:11:49.742 --> 00:11:51.911
- Break the six month siege at orleans,
- 00:11:51.911 --> 00:11:55.147
- Surely god was on her side. after rigorous
- 00:11:55.147 --> 00:11:58.717
- Theological and even physical vetting of joan
- 00:11:58.717 --> 00:12:02.454
- And her visions,
- 00:12:02.454 --> 00:12:03.422
- The prince gave her a suit of armor, a
- 00:12:03.422 --> 00:12:04.690
- Warhorse, and a white banner. embroidered on
- 00:12:04.690 --> 00:12:07.760
- It was the fleur de lis, and her chosen symbol of
- 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:10.296
- The names of jesus and mary.
- 00:12:10.296 --> 00:12:12.998
- Then the prince sent her with a garrison of troops
- 00:12:12.998 --> 00:12:15.167
- To aid in the battle happening at orleans.
- 00:12:15.167 --> 00:12:18.838
- - i'm on a mission from god.
- 00:12:18.838 --> 00:12:24.243
- ♪♪
- 00:12:24.243 --> 00:12:25.277
- - when joan showed up here to orleans, she
- 00:12:25.277 --> 00:12:26.912
- Wasn't exactly welcomed by the commanders.
- 00:12:26.912 --> 00:12:30.082
- They had been under siege for six months and morale
- 00:12:30.082 --> 00:12:32.918
- Was desperately low.
- 00:12:32.918 --> 00:12:35.554
- Her mission was to lead the army, but the
- 00:12:35.554 --> 00:12:37.456
- Commanders were not about to start taking orders
- 00:12:37.456 --> 00:12:40.526
- From a teenage girl.
- 00:12:40.526 --> 00:12:43.429
- - rumor has it
- 00:12:43.429 --> 00:12:44.597
- There was a maiden on her way to the front on the
- 00:12:44.597 --> 00:12:46.532
- Mission from god.
- 00:12:46.532 --> 00:12:47.900
- She could be the one of prophecies fortell to
- 00:12:47.900 --> 00:12:49.935
- Deliver us from the english.
- 00:12:49.935 --> 00:12:53.339
- - is she cute?
- 00:12:53.339 --> 00:12:55.007
- But aren't we as a society past
- 00:12:55.007 --> 00:12:56.876
- The cute girl comments?
- 00:12:56.876 --> 00:12:58.377
- - we live in the 1400s.
- 00:12:58.377 --> 00:13:00.045
- Ah, oui.
- 00:13:00.045 --> 00:13:00.880
- Very true.
- 00:13:00.880 --> 00:13:02.214
- But in any case, she's kind of cute, but she
- 00:13:02.214 --> 00:13:05.784
- Wears pants. - as long as she can cook.
- 00:13:05.784 --> 00:13:10.689
- - but in order to break the six month siege, it
- 00:13:10.689 --> 00:13:13.392
- Would take an absolute miracle.
- 00:13:13.392 --> 00:13:15.227
- Luckily, joan was all about miracles.
- 00:13:15.227 --> 00:13:20.032
- - charge! - joan's game day strategy
- 00:13:20.132 --> 00:13:26.171
- Was really go get 'em
- 00:13:26.171 --> 00:13:28.073
- As in i don't think she really thought it through
- 00:13:28.073 --> 00:13:30.075
- And had much strategy.
- 00:13:30.075 --> 00:13:31.310
- She believed if god was for them, there was no
- 00:13:31.310 --> 00:13:33.946
- Need for strategy.
- 00:13:33.946 --> 00:13:35.247
- Just go win, right?
- 00:13:35.247 --> 00:13:37.216
- - if god is for us, we don't even need
- 00:13:37.216 --> 00:13:39.919
- A strategy.
- 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:41.387
- Let's just go get them.
- 00:13:41.387 --> 00:13:44.290
- Listen, you do not go into battle to die for
- 00:13:44.290 --> 00:13:47.426
- Your country.
- 00:13:47.426 --> 00:13:48.861
- You go into battle to make the other dude die
- 00:13:48.861 --> 00:13:51.463
- For his country.
- 00:13:51.463 --> 00:13:53.065
- - oh, yes.
- 00:13:53.065 --> 00:13:54.533
- - i want you to go into orleans tomorrow, and i
- 00:13:54.533 --> 00:13:57.469
- Want you to fight like a girl.
- 00:13:57.469 --> 00:14:04.510
- - when the dust cleared, joan had kicked the
- 00:14:04.610 --> 00:14:06.245
- English to the curb and taken back the city of
- 00:14:06.245 --> 00:14:08.480
- Orleans. and the french army?
- 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.516
- Well, they had themselves a new mascot,
- 00:14:10.516 --> 00:14:14.553
- Joan maid of orleans.
- 00:14:14.553 --> 00:14:15.521
- - maid of orleans!
- 00:14:15.521 --> 00:14:17.389
- - wow, joan. you just won the battle of orleans.
- 00:14:17.389 --> 00:14:20.225
- Now, is there anyone you would like to
- 00:14:20.225 --> 00:14:21.860
- Thank today?
- 00:14:21.860 --> 00:14:24.163
- - oh, yeah.
- 00:14:24.563 --> 00:14:25.597
- There are so many people i want to thank.
- 00:14:25.597 --> 00:14:28.200
- Obviously --
- 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:29.735
- Mostly i need to thank my number one guy, g-o-d, and
- 00:14:29.735 --> 00:14:34.273
- Of course, i need to think st. michael,
- 00:14:34.273 --> 00:14:37.376
- Saint catherine, saint margaret.
- 00:14:37.376 --> 00:14:40.279
- - at just 17 years old, when most girls are
- 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:43.415
- Worrying about how many likes the last instagram
- 00:14:43.415 --> 00:14:45.451
- Post got, joan was leading men twice her age
- 00:14:45.451 --> 00:14:48.153
- Into battle and had even survived
- 00:14:48.153 --> 00:14:50.556
- An arrow to the chest.
- 00:14:50.556 --> 00:14:52.891
- - you don't want to mess with this.
- 00:14:52.891 --> 00:14:57.429
- - after the victory here in orleans,
- 00:14:58.263 --> 00:14:59.999
- She had gone from zero to hero and was finally in
- 00:14:59.999 --> 00:15:03.736
- The "it" crowd, and most of all finally
- 00:15:03.736 --> 00:15:06.505
- Had massive influence.
- 00:15:06.505 --> 00:15:09.375
- Because of her influence and popularity with the
- 00:15:09.375 --> 00:15:11.977
- People, she became a shining symbol of hope,
- 00:15:11.977 --> 00:15:15.714
- But that also made her a very valuable target
- 00:15:15.714 --> 00:15:18.884
- For england.
- 00:15:18.884 --> 00:15:20.919
- - a strong woman only intimidates a weak man.
- 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:25.424
- - the next step in her mission was to get ole
- 00:15:25.424 --> 00:15:27.126
- Prince charlie the seventh crowned as
- 00:15:27.126 --> 00:15:29.194
- The true heir to the french throne.
- 00:15:29.194 --> 00:15:31.530
- With the victory of orleans behind her,
- 00:15:31.530 --> 00:15:33.132
- She ambitiously convinced charles of a daring
- 00:15:33.132 --> 00:15:36.001
- Venture. let her take his army deeper in enemy
- 00:15:36.001 --> 00:15:39.171
- Territory than they had ever gone before.
- 00:15:39.171 --> 00:15:44.443
- The city of reims was traditionally the only
- 00:15:44.443 --> 00:15:47.212
- Place that french monarchs could be coronated.
- 00:15:47.212 --> 00:15:50.049
- In order to get there, joan had to lead a
- 00:15:50.049 --> 00:15:52.785
- Massive offensive effort battling all
- 00:15:52.785 --> 00:15:55.154
- Up and down the river loire.
- 00:15:55.154 --> 00:15:57.756
- - everyone gather around, listen up.
- 00:15:57.756 --> 00:16:00.459
- I brought troops, armor, and weaponry,
- 00:16:00.459 --> 00:16:03.495
- But most importantly,
- 00:16:03.495 --> 00:16:04.797
- I brought everybody half cap frappacinos!
- 00:16:04.797 --> 00:16:09.868
- [cheering]
- 00:16:09.868 --> 00:16:12.438
- - surely it's a proud hour.
- 00:16:12.438 --> 00:16:17.576
- - then the miracles started happening again.
- 00:16:18.544 --> 00:16:21.413
- As joan advanced towards reims, other cities in her
- 00:16:21.413 --> 00:16:24.583
- Army's path returned to french allegiance without
- 00:16:24.583 --> 00:16:27.219
- Any resistance at all.
- 00:16:27.219 --> 00:16:29.822
- Joan took the city of reims, and prince
- 00:16:29.822 --> 00:16:32.124
- Charles the seventh was finally crowned king
- 00:16:32.124 --> 00:16:35.127
- Charles the seventh of france
- 00:16:35.127 --> 00:16:37.496
- All thanks to joan.
- 00:16:37.496 --> 00:16:39.164
- - it is good to be the king.
- 00:16:39.898 --> 00:16:43.836
- - joan led her army to riims without losing a
- 00:16:43.836 --> 00:16:46.238
- Single man or a woman, a massive victory for the
- 00:16:46.238 --> 00:16:49.875
- French, and again, garnering joan
- 00:16:49.875 --> 00:16:51.710
- More influence than ever.
- 00:16:51.710 --> 00:16:56.081
- - that little missy showing them a thing too, huh?
- 00:16:57.182 --> 00:16:59.685
- - yeah, she's gone along farther than
- 00:16:59.685 --> 00:17:01.420
- I thought she would.
- 00:17:01.420 --> 00:17:03.288
- - yeah.
- 00:17:03.288 --> 00:17:05.124
- - with charles the seventh on his rightful throne,
- 00:17:05.124 --> 00:17:07.326
- And joan on a roll of undefeated battles,
- 00:17:07.326 --> 00:17:10.129
- The king, against the vice of his council,
- 00:17:10.129 --> 00:17:12.631
- Decides to let his young female commander storm
- 00:17:12.631 --> 00:17:14.967
- The most valuable and well defended city in
- 00:17:14.967 --> 00:17:17.336
- France... paris.
- 00:17:17.336 --> 00:17:20.172
- - moving against paris, it is unwise, sire.
- 00:17:20.172 --> 00:17:23.542
- - i second that.
- 00:17:23.542 --> 00:17:25.043
- - the generals never trusted me,
- 00:17:25.043 --> 00:17:26.645
- But my gut tells me we can take it.
- 00:17:26.645 --> 00:17:28.981
- Plus the fashion there is to die for!
- 00:17:28.981 --> 00:17:32.017
- - then let's do it.
- 00:17:32.017 --> 00:17:36.054
- - this time, it didn't go as planned.
- 00:17:36.155 --> 00:17:38.390
- After being shot in the leg with a crossbow,
- 00:17:38.390 --> 00:17:40.425
- She was dragged from the battlefield
- 00:17:40.425 --> 00:17:41.994
- And forced to retreat.
- 00:17:41.994 --> 00:17:44.163
- - this going to hurt.
- 00:17:44.163 --> 00:17:45.397
- - yeah.
- 00:17:45.397 --> 00:17:46.632
- - okay. - no, no, no, wait wait!
- 00:17:46.632 --> 00:17:49.468
- - okay. okay.
- 00:17:49.468 --> 00:17:51.069
- You can take two on an empty stomach.
- 00:17:51.069 --> 00:17:53.772
- No more.
- 00:17:53.772 --> 00:17:54.940
- - okay. okay. okay.
- 00:17:54.940 --> 00:18:01.446
- - do it.
- 00:18:01.747 --> 00:18:05.851
- [screams]
- 00:18:05.851 --> 00:18:10.889
- - you killed her!
- 00:18:10.889 --> 00:18:14.092
- - this was joan's first defeat and ultimately led
- 00:18:14.193 --> 00:18:16.662
- To her being captured by english forces.
- 00:18:16.662 --> 00:18:20.699
- What's crazy is that the english didn't just kill
- 00:18:20.699 --> 00:18:23.702
- Joan. they wanted to try her as a heretic.
- 00:18:23.702 --> 00:18:27.472
- So in order to understand the impact of the events
- 00:18:27.472 --> 00:18:29.841
- That happened next, we must speak to a
- 00:18:29.841 --> 00:18:32.077
- True french historian.
- 00:18:32.077 --> 00:18:33.812
- That's why we're headed to rouen and meeting up
- 00:18:33.812 --> 00:18:36.014
- With miranda axton.
- 00:18:36.014 --> 00:18:37.516
- After her capture, she was brought here to rouen.
- 00:18:37.516 --> 00:18:40.152
- Why this place?
- 00:18:40.152 --> 00:18:41.787
- - okay. she was brought here specifically because this
- 00:18:41.787 --> 00:18:44.223
- Was the city occupied by the english.
- 00:18:44.223 --> 00:18:46.725
- It was one of them principal cities,
- 00:18:46.725 --> 00:18:49.394
- Had a huge presence of troops,
- 00:18:49.394 --> 00:18:52.297
- But also they had the castle here.
- 00:18:52.297 --> 00:18:54.433
- So the castle on northwest of the city was
- 00:18:54.433 --> 00:18:57.202
- The garrison for the english army,
- 00:18:57.202 --> 00:19:00.305
- It was seen as the seat of their power.
- 00:19:00.305 --> 00:19:02.474
- - so what happened to her after she was captured
- 00:19:02.474 --> 00:19:03.875
- By the english?
- 00:19:03.875 --> 00:19:05.544
- - once she was captured by the english,
- 00:19:05.544 --> 00:19:07.379
- She was taken and placed in a cell in
- 00:19:07.379 --> 00:19:09.615
- The castle itself.
- 00:19:09.615 --> 00:19:10.716
- Now, this was really unusual because in the
- 00:19:10.716 --> 00:19:12.718
- Medieval times, a woman normally would've been
- 00:19:12.718 --> 00:19:14.886
- Imprisoned in a convent under female guard,
- 00:19:14.886 --> 00:19:17.222
- But unusually she was imprisoned under male
- 00:19:17.222 --> 00:19:19.424
- Guard, and that was because she was seen not
- 00:19:19.424 --> 00:19:21.326
- Only as a religious prisoner,
- 00:19:21.326 --> 00:19:22.928
- But as a prisoner of war as well.
- 00:19:22.928 --> 00:19:25.097
- - so why did the english hate joan so much
- 00:19:25.097 --> 00:19:28.367
- That they wanted her dead?
- 00:19:28.367 --> 00:19:29.935
- - it was believed by everybody that the
- 00:19:29.935 --> 00:19:32.838
- English king had god behind him.
- 00:19:32.838 --> 00:19:36.541
- - and that would've been henry v, right?
- 00:19:36.541 --> 00:19:38.744
- - yes. what happened when joan of arc started hearing
- 00:19:38.744 --> 00:19:42.781
- Voices was that the french forces had already
- 00:19:42.781 --> 00:19:45.117
- Lost their morale.
- 00:19:45.117 --> 00:19:48.754
- Imagine being an army that's fighting against a
- 00:19:48.754 --> 00:19:50.555
- King who is god's leader.
- 00:19:50.555 --> 00:19:53.859
- And then along comes joan of arc and joan of arc
- 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:55.861
- Has been sent by god.
- 00:19:55.861 --> 00:19:57.496
- She's been hearing voices, and she predicts
- 00:19:57.496 --> 00:20:00.365
- That in fact, the king of england is not
- 00:20:00.365 --> 00:20:03.635
- The chosen ruler of france.
- 00:20:03.635 --> 00:20:05.704
- And not only that,
- 00:20:05.704 --> 00:20:07.539
- She manages to overcome orlean.
- 00:20:07.539 --> 00:20:09.374
- She manages to get the dauphin to his coronation.
- 00:20:09.374 --> 00:20:11.977
- You can imagine that she's changed
- 00:20:11.977 --> 00:20:13.745
- The roles completely.
- 00:20:13.745 --> 00:20:15.314
- All of a sudden she's made it seem as if the
- 00:20:15.314 --> 00:20:18.183
- French dauphin is who god wants.
- 00:20:18.183 --> 00:20:21.086
- And for that reason, the english hated joan of arc.
- 00:20:21.086 --> 00:20:23.522
- She was someone that was basically
- 00:20:23.522 --> 00:20:26.658
- Invalidating them.
- 00:20:26.658 --> 00:20:28.026
- - so why didn't the english just kill her immediately?
- 00:20:28.026 --> 00:20:30.495
- Why did they capture her and hold a big trial?
- 00:20:30.495 --> 00:20:34.966
- - at compiegne, it was a city occupied basically
- 00:20:34.966 --> 00:20:37.602
- By the burgundians.
- 00:20:37.602 --> 00:20:39.371
- The english were in presence,
- 00:20:39.371 --> 00:20:40.772
- But it wasn't a capital city.
- 00:20:40.772 --> 00:20:42.174
- It wasn't a major city.
- 00:20:42.174 --> 00:20:43.375
- It was in fact quite a small area, a small town.
- 00:20:43.375 --> 00:20:46.144
- So it wouldn't have made any sense for them
- 00:20:46.144 --> 00:20:49.014
- To kill her immediately there.
- 00:20:49.014 --> 00:20:51.016
- And secondly, if she'd been killed straight
- 00:20:51.016 --> 00:20:52.718
- Away, she would've been probably seen as a martyr,
- 00:20:52.718 --> 00:20:55.053
- A martyr towards the cause, and that's
- 00:20:55.053 --> 00:20:57.789
- One thing that the english couldn't risk.
- 00:20:57.789 --> 00:20:59.758
- They needed absolutely to prove that
- 00:20:59.758 --> 00:21:02.527
- She was a heretic.
- 00:21:02.527 --> 00:21:03.962
- - how did king charles feel about joans capture?
- 00:21:03.962 --> 00:21:07.733
- - it's difficult to know in the moment exactly
- 00:21:07.733 --> 00:21:10.235
- How he felt about it.
- 00:21:10.235 --> 00:21:11.803
- I would assume the fact that joan had failed on
- 00:21:11.803 --> 00:21:15.607
- Two attempts, firstly at paris and secondly at
- 00:21:15.607 --> 00:21:18.343
- Compiegne, that he believed in fact that the king no
- 00:21:18.343 --> 00:21:21.179
- Longer supported the cause of joan of arc.
- 00:21:21.179 --> 00:21:23.482
- So in a sense, you get the idea that quite
- 00:21:23.482 --> 00:21:26.451
- Likely she was just left, she was dropped.
- 00:21:26.451 --> 00:21:29.788
- She had done what they wanted her to do,
- 00:21:29.788 --> 00:21:32.157
- Which was to get him crowned,
- 00:21:32.157 --> 00:21:33.892
- And from that moment, she had no real role.
- 00:21:33.892 --> 00:21:38.830
- - isn't it crazy to think that just because of
- 00:21:39.831 --> 00:21:41.733
- Influence and popularity, even a teenage girl had
- 00:21:41.733 --> 00:21:45.704
- Become the number one enemy of an entire nation?
- 00:21:45.704 --> 00:21:49.908
- After capturing her,
- 00:21:49.908 --> 00:21:51.009
- The english held joan right here for over a
- 00:21:51.009 --> 00:21:53.311
- Year as they drew up charges against her.
- 00:21:53.311 --> 00:21:55.680
- They interviewed her family, her friends,
- 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.949
- And even fellow combatants.
- 00:21:57.949 --> 00:21:59.818
- But this wasn't a war trial.
- 00:21:59.818 --> 00:22:01.953
- This was a religious one.
- 00:22:01.953 --> 00:22:04.089
- As we'll see, it was a total sham.
- 00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:08.360
- The english and church authorities brought their
- 00:22:08.460 --> 00:22:10.562
- Accusations against joan while she was imprisoned
- 00:22:10.562 --> 00:22:12.764
- Here in rouen. she was just 19 years old.
- 00:22:12.764 --> 00:22:17.202
- She was charged with violating old testament
- 00:22:17.202 --> 00:22:20.405
- Law by dressing as a man and bearing arms,
- 00:22:20.405 --> 00:22:23.675
- Deceiving simple-minded people by making them believe
- 00:22:23.675 --> 00:22:26.011
- That god had sent her, being a liar.
- 00:22:26.011 --> 00:22:29.448
- Her visions of archangels and saints,
- 00:22:29.448 --> 00:22:31.349
- The court said to be demonic,
- 00:22:31.349 --> 00:22:33.485
- And finally, for being a heretic.
- 00:22:33.485 --> 00:22:35.787
- It was a divine offense to claim that she had
- 00:22:35.787 --> 00:22:37.956
- Heard from god.
- 00:22:37.956 --> 00:22:40.525
- A few days later when the trial opened,
- 00:22:40.525 --> 00:22:42.227
- The bishop added the charge of witchcraft
- 00:22:42.227 --> 00:22:45.564
- And said that joan was now under suspicion
- 00:22:45.564 --> 00:22:48.366
- Of having cast spells and evoking demons.
- 00:22:48.366 --> 00:22:52.204
- - the devil? you think i'm the devil??
- 00:22:52.204 --> 00:22:57.476
- Girl!
- 00:22:57.476 --> 00:22:59.144
- - later it would be ruled that the court had no
- 00:22:59.144 --> 00:23:01.046
- Legal standings to hold a trial.
- 00:23:01.046 --> 00:23:03.381
- They couldn't find any factual evidence or
- 00:23:03.381 --> 00:23:05.517
- Testimony against her, and they didn't even
- 00:23:05.517 --> 00:23:07.919
- Give joan a lawyer.
- 00:23:07.919 --> 00:23:09.721
- But guess what?
- 00:23:09.721 --> 00:23:11.122
- Even though the whole thing is rigged,
- 00:23:11.122 --> 00:23:12.891
- The trial records show how joan, an illiterate
- 00:23:12.891 --> 00:23:16.261
- Teenage peasant girl, continued to outsmart her
- 00:23:16.261 --> 00:23:19.931
- Inquisitors and avoid the theological traps that
- 00:23:19.931 --> 00:23:22.367
- They set for her.
- 00:23:22.367 --> 00:23:25.103
- - did you or did you not lead men into battle?
- 00:23:25.103 --> 00:23:28.874
- - i did.
- 00:23:28.874 --> 00:23:32.477
- [crowd gasping]
- 00:23:32.477 --> 00:23:33.678
- - men, you led men?
- 00:23:33.678 --> 00:23:37.315
- - yes, i did.
- 00:23:37.749 --> 00:23:40.051
- [crowd gasps] - order!
- 00:23:40.051 --> 00:23:41.920
- - on a horse into battle with a sword on
- 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.457
- Your side, a flag in your hand and wearing pants.
- 00:23:45.457 --> 00:23:54.432
- - yes.
- 00:23:54.733 --> 00:23:56.301
- [crowd mumbles] - order!
- 00:23:56.301 --> 00:23:58.303
- - just for clarification purposes,
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- You were wearing pants.
- 00:24:03.308 --> 00:24:05.243
- - yes, i wore pants.
- 00:24:05.243 --> 00:24:07.178
- Trousers.
- 00:24:07.178 --> 00:24:09.247
- - ladies and gentlemen on the jury,
- 00:24:09.247 --> 00:24:10.649
- You heard it from her own lips.
- 00:24:10.649 --> 00:24:12.284
- This woman, as she claims to be one, wears pants.
- 00:24:12.284 --> 00:24:18.390
- I rest my case, your honor.
- 00:24:18.390 --> 00:24:21.593
- - they told me you were fools.
- 00:24:21.693 --> 00:24:24.029
- - pardon me.
- 00:24:24.029 --> 00:24:26.064
- - and that i should not listen to your fine
- 00:24:26.064 --> 00:24:27.966
- Words, nor trust your charity.
- 00:24:27.966 --> 00:24:29.701
- - you deserve none. you deserve nothing, enemy combatant,
- 00:24:29.701 --> 00:24:33.104
- Wearer of pants,
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- Woman wearer of pants.
- 00:24:34.706 --> 00:24:36.841
- Your name will be erased from the history books.
- 00:24:36.841 --> 00:24:41.780
- - you promised me my life, but you lied.
- 00:24:41.780 --> 00:24:46.351
- Shut me away from the light of the sky,
- 00:24:46.351 --> 00:24:50.689
- From the sight of the fields and flowers
- 00:24:50.689 --> 00:24:53.825
- Chained my feet, so i may never again
- 00:24:53.825 --> 00:24:56.194
- Ride with the soldiers.
- 00:24:56.194 --> 00:24:58.597
- Hear the wind and the trees,
- 00:24:58.597 --> 00:25:00.098
- The larks and the sunshine.
- 00:25:00.098 --> 00:25:02.734
- - yeah, that's right.
- 00:25:02.734 --> 00:25:04.336
- And your feet will be burned at the stake.
- 00:25:04.336 --> 00:25:08.974
- - by trying me for what i wear and not who i am,
- 00:25:08.974 --> 00:25:14.646
- You've made your motives clear.
- 00:25:14.646 --> 00:25:18.116
- I know your counsel is that of the devil and
- 00:25:18.116 --> 00:25:21.686
- That mine is of god.
- 00:25:21.686 --> 00:25:26.024
- - remember, even though joan was leading armies
- 00:25:27.092 --> 00:25:29.127
- And kicking it with nobility,
- 00:25:29.127 --> 00:25:31.162
- She still couldn't read or write.
- 00:25:31.162 --> 00:25:33.131
- She was in many senses, still just a farm girl.
- 00:25:33.131 --> 00:25:36.368
- In fact, it was only at the trial that joan
- 00:25:36.368 --> 00:25:39.170
- Finally learned to sign her own name
- 00:25:39.170 --> 00:25:43.174
- On documents that she couldn't even read.
- 00:25:43.174 --> 00:25:49.381
- Although joan was able to avoid some of the more
- 00:25:50.415 --> 00:25:52.450
- Serious charges, there was one accusation she
- 00:25:52.450 --> 00:25:55.353
- Couldn't avoid: her clothing. and no, we're
- 00:25:55.353 --> 00:25:58.523
- Not talking about wearing socks with sandals here.
- 00:25:58.523 --> 00:26:01.292
- She was on trial for wearing pants.
- 00:26:01.292 --> 00:26:06.698
- - boy, deep state finally got her, huh?
- 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:12.504
- - i guess.
- 00:26:12.504 --> 00:26:13.972
- - throughout the war,
- 00:26:13.972 --> 00:26:15.006
- Joan had worn armor and men's clothing and
- 00:26:15.006 --> 00:26:17.075
- Continued to do so while held captive,
- 00:26:17.075 --> 00:26:19.911
- Mainly as the deterrent against sexual assault.
- 00:26:19.911 --> 00:26:23.448
- The english were determined to see her
- 00:26:23.448 --> 00:26:24.816
- Convicted, and women wearing men's clothing
- 00:26:24.816 --> 00:26:27.085
- Was considered heresy. for this charge,
- 00:26:27.085 --> 00:26:29.788
- Joan had no answer and pled guilty.
- 00:26:29.788 --> 00:26:34.392
- Some think that this specific pledge was
- 00:26:34.492 --> 00:26:36.194
- Contrived maliciously because a few days later
- 00:26:36.194 --> 00:26:38.697
- When the authorities visited joan here in
- 00:26:38.697 --> 00:26:40.699
- Prison, they found her once again dressed
- 00:26:40.699 --> 00:26:43.401
- In men's clothing.
- 00:26:43.401 --> 00:26:45.303
- Sources suggest that the men guarding joan had
- 00:26:45.303 --> 00:26:47.639
- Stripped her naked and given her the choice of
- 00:26:47.639 --> 00:26:50.041
- Either putting on the forbidding clothing or
- 00:26:50.041 --> 00:26:52.644
- Remaining naked in front of them.
- 00:26:52.644 --> 00:26:55.113
- We can all assume what would've happened if joan
- 00:26:55.113 --> 00:26:57.048
- Would've remained naked.
- 00:26:57.048 --> 00:26:58.583
- So joan chose the clothing,
- 00:26:58.583 --> 00:27:00.685
- Thus sealing her fate.
- 00:27:00.685 --> 00:27:08.460
- On the morning of may 30th, 1431,
- 00:27:09.327 --> 00:27:11.963
- Joan was led into this marketplace tied to a
- 00:27:11.963 --> 00:27:14.866
- Stake and was burned alive. as the flames
- 00:27:14.866 --> 00:27:17.902
- Consumed her, she could be heard repeatedly
- 00:27:17.902 --> 00:27:20.205
- Proclaiming the name of her savior, jesus.
- 00:27:20.205 --> 00:27:22.807
- She was executed at just 19 years old,
- 00:27:22.807 --> 00:27:26.044
- Not for any war crimes, but for wearing pants.
- 00:27:26.044 --> 00:27:31.282
- More than 20 years after her death,
- 00:27:31.282 --> 00:27:33.551
- An inquiry into joan's trial ordered by the king
- 00:27:33.551 --> 00:27:36.588
- Resulted in her sentence being overturned,
- 00:27:36.588 --> 00:27:39.591
- Clearing her name and her legacy.
- 00:27:39.591 --> 00:27:42.961
- - listen, i'm going to call the pope.
- 00:27:42.961 --> 00:27:45.663
- I'm going to tell him she needs to be a saint.
- 00:27:45.663 --> 00:27:49.734
- - following her death, the french continued to win.
- 00:27:49.734 --> 00:27:53.171
- England steadily lost all of its territory in
- 00:27:53.171 --> 00:27:55.473
- France, and king charles xii stabilized his reign
- 00:27:55.473 --> 00:27:58.810
- And transformed france. after a hundred years of
- 00:27:58.810 --> 00:28:01.546
- Brutal fighting, the war torn france needed a
- 00:28:01.546 --> 00:28:04.115
- National hero, and they found one in joan of arc.
- 00:28:04.115 --> 00:28:07.786
- Her importance to the french people was
- 00:28:07.786 --> 00:28:09.354
- Further solidified when she was made a saint
- 00:28:09.354 --> 00:28:12.056
- Four centuries later by the same church that
- 00:28:12.056 --> 00:28:14.926
- Sentenced her to death.
- 00:28:14.926 --> 00:28:26.871
- The end of the hundred year war brought europe
- 00:28:27.906 --> 00:28:30.375
- Out of the dark ages and into the renaissance
- 00:28:30.375 --> 00:28:33.745
- Where art, language, poetry,
- 00:28:33.745 --> 00:28:36.181
- And creative life was able to flourish in a way
- 00:28:36.181 --> 00:28:39.150
- That had never been seen before in europe.
- 00:28:39.150 --> 00:28:43.755
- It's kind of poetic.
- 00:28:43.755 --> 00:28:45.824
- It took a woman to end a barbaric war and bring
- 00:28:45.824 --> 00:28:49.894
- About the beauty of the renaissance.
- 00:28:49.894 --> 00:28:54.866
- Her influence would live well beyond her years.
- 00:28:54.966 --> 00:28:58.002
- She single handedly changed the course of
- 00:28:58.002 --> 00:29:00.205
- The two most dominant countries in europe,
- 00:29:00.205 --> 00:29:02.273
- And she, as you can imagine, became an icon
- 00:29:02.273 --> 00:29:04.843
- For women everywhere almost immediately.
- 00:29:04.843 --> 00:29:08.546
- She truly is one of history's
- 00:29:08.546 --> 00:29:10.782
- Greatest influencers.
- 00:29:10.782 --> 00:29:13.551
- Her story should be an inspiration to us all.
- 00:29:13.551 --> 00:29:16.054
- It doesn't matter where you've been or
- 00:29:16.054 --> 00:29:17.522
- Where you come from.
- 00:29:17.522 --> 00:29:19.023
- What matters is like joan,
- 00:29:19.023 --> 00:29:20.725
- The way you choose to wield your influence.
- 00:29:20.725 --> 00:29:23.761
- If we all choose to carry out our own personal
- 00:29:23.761 --> 00:29:25.964
- Missions the way joan did,
- 00:29:25.964 --> 00:29:27.966
- Then perhaps we can all leave our
- 00:29:27.966 --> 00:29:30.635
- Own marks on history.
- 00:29:30.635 --> 00:29:30.635