She was also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron saint of France and a national heroine, led the resistance to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War. At the battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a miraculous victory over the English. She continued her fight and later, she was ennobled for her services to the country.
Captured by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne near Paris she was sold to the English. Joan was convicted after a fourteen-month interrogation and on May 30, 1431, she was burned at the stake in the Rouen marketplace. She was nineteen years old.
(1412-1431)
– Joan of Arc Quotes –
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
~ Joan of Arc
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
~ Joan of Arc
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
~ Joan of Arc
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
~ Joan of Arc
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
~ Joan of Arc
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
~ Joan of Arc
Our life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~ Joan of Arc
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
~ Joan of Arc
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
~ Joan of Arc
I am not afraid… I was born to do this.
~ Joan of Arc
Act, and God will act.
~ Joan of Arc
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
~ Joan of Arc
You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger.
~ Joan of Arc
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
~ Joan of Arc
Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
~ Joan of Arc
As far as I am concerned, to tell you frankly, if I wasn’t occupied in the English wars I would have come to see you a long time ago; but if I don’t find out that you have reformed yourselves I might leave off [fighting] the English and go against you, so that by iron, if I can’t do it any other way, I will eliminate your mad and obscene superstition and remove your heresy or your life; but if you would prefer to return to the Catholic faith and the original Light, then send your ambassadors to me and I will tell them what you need to do; if [on the other hand] you are not willing and if you obstinately resist the spur, remember what damage and offenses you have committed and await me, who will inflict similar upon you with forces human and divine.
~ Joan of Arc
Do you believe that you will remain unpunished for it? Or are you unaware that God opposes your unlawful efforts and will not permit you to remain in darkness and error? So that the more you indulge yourselves in crime and sacrilege, the more He will prepare great punishments and anguish for you.
~ Joan of Arc
