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Cody Crouch: Joan Of Arc - The Original Influencer | Centuries Collide

January 30, 2025 | S1:E3

Cody Crouch: Joan Of Arc - The Original Influencer | Centuries Collide
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
  • 00:08:51.731 --> 00:08:53.633
  • 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?
  • 00:10:26.392 --> 00:10:28.227
  • - a teenage girl in charge of the army.
  • 00:10:28.227 --> 00:10:36.102
  • [raucous laughter]
  • 00:10:36.102 --> 00:10:46.378
  • I would be the laughing stock of europe.
  • 00:10:46.378 --> 00:10:50.349
  • - well, i'm not the one wearing clown hair, sir.
  • 00:10:50.349 --> 00:10:55.187
  • - the prince was obviously shocked at
  • 00:10:56.021 --> 00:10:57.890
  • Joan's divine discernment and agreed to
  • 00:10:57.890 --> 00:11:00.426
  • Hear about her mission to help the french at the
  • 00:11:00.426 --> 00:11:02.628
  • Siege of orleans, and according to her, be put
  • 00:11:02.628 --> 00:11:05.998
  • In charge, right?
  • 00:11:05.998 --> 00:11:07.133
  • But she was just a teenage girl, so that
  • 00:11:07.133 --> 00:11:09.001
  • Wasn't going to happen.
  • 00:11:09.001 --> 00:11:11.203
  • Prince charles vii was running out of options.
  • 00:11:11.203 --> 00:11:14.140
  • - we're really running out of options, sir.
  • 00:11:14.140 --> 00:11:17.843
  • - i'll tell you what, if you can break the siege
  • 00:11:17.843 --> 00:11:21.647
  • At orleans, surely god is on your side.
  • 00:11:21.647 --> 00:11:26.185
  • - but she's a girl.
  • 00:11:26.185 --> 00:11:31.490
  • - and maybe so, but she has heard from god,
  • 00:11:31.490 --> 00:11:36.862
  • So if she dies,
  • 00:11:36.862 --> 00:11:39.799
  • She's just a woman.
  • 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.534
  • - that's a win-win.
  • 00:11:41.534 --> 00:11:42.701
  • 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
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  • Law by dressing as a man and bearing arms,
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  • Deceiving simple-minded people by making them believe
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  • That god had sent her, being a liar.
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  • Her visions of archangels and saints,
  • 00:22:29.448 --> 00:22:31.349
  • The court said to be demonic,
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  • 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??
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  • 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,
  • 00:23:58.303 --> 00:24:03.308
  • You were wearing pants.
  • 00:24:03.308 --> 00:24:05.243
  • - yes, i wore pants.
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  • 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,
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  • Wearer of pants,
  • 00:24:33.104 --> 00:24:34.706
  • Woman wearer of pants.
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  • 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