An Iriot original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario.

In my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters.

And find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing the death of Joan of Arc.

Here's what you need to know.

When John Dark, known around the world as Joan of Arc, was born in 1412 to a pious farming family

in the north-eastern French village Doremi, the Hundred Years War between France and England

had been waging for over seven decades.

King Henry V of England sought claim to the French throne

and the English were gaining steady ground.

Along with England's invasion, France was in the midst of a bitter and bloody civil war

between the Armenians and the Burgundians, two factions of the French royal family.

In 1418, Dufon Charles VII, the heir apparent to the French throne

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