The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, histories, and mysteries podcast.

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

And today's episode is titled Joan of Arc, Part 2. Dreams Never Die. Subtitle, The Crowning

of a King, that king being Charles V, the Dauphine, the eldest son of the mad Charles

6th, and Queen Isabaut of France. As you remember from Part 1, Queen Isabaut had signed away

France's independence to England

with the Treaty of Trois, which declared her son Charles to be illegitimate, and promised her

eldest daughter Catherine to the young king of England Henry the 6th, while at the same time

fulfilling the first half of an ages old prophecy, that being,

A woman shall lose France, a virgin from Lorraine, shall restore it, and Joan O'Arc, called Jean Dark by the French, was doing her best to restore it.

It was June 18th, 1429, and French morale had never been higher.

The French had been marching all through the Loire

River Valley, signing new recruits to fight, lifting people's pride and spirit, and winning every

battle they took on. Their confidence was unbridled, and their fear of ambush, with the English

seemingly on the run, was forgotten. As their columns moved up the road toward Pette, they rode through thick stands of forest and

brush, enough to hide an army, and they failed to play scouts ahead of and around their line of

March. They had been promised another victory by the mate of Orlean, who traveled with them.

Eighty knights, led by Lahir, who had been with Joan at Orlean, led the vanguard toward

Pate.

The knights who led the column were only two miles out of Patee when a disturbance occurred.

There was a sudden rustle from the woods, and a huge stag broke out onto the old Roman

road they had been following,

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