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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Joan of Arc, Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthievre, Francois-Marie Picote de Belestre, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, List of French military leaders, Charles de Saint-Evremond, Bertran de Born, Rene Prioux, Agrippa d'Aubigne, Paul Legentilhomme, Dimitri Amilakhvari, Francois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguieres, Jules Gaucher, Edgard de Larminat, Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, Henri Dentz, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Roger Blaizot, Gabriel Brunet de Sairigne, Claude d'Annebault, Charles Chanoine, Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, Ernest Doudart de Lagree, Francois Edmond Eugene de Barlatier de Mas, Jean Decoux, Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles, Francois de Beauvais, Seigneur de Briquemault, Paul Francois Ignace de Barlatier de Mas, Benjamin, Duke of Soubise, Savari de Mauleon, Pierre La Motte, James D. J. Reilly, Armand Leon Annet, Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy, Francois-Charles de Bourlamaque, Francois, Count of Enghien, Jacques Legrand, Charles Dugua, Pierre Barjot. Excerpt: Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans" (French: , IPA: ca. 1412 - 30 May 1431), is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old. Twenty-five years after the execution, Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is - along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tou...