I shall last a year, and but little longer; we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
Saint Joan of Arc
1429 was the year of Joan’s glory with the relief of Orleans and the crowning of the Dauphin at Reims. Her brief life after that was an anti-climax as she had set in motion the forces that would lead to France winning the Hundred Years War. Her mission accomplished, her time in this Vale of Tears was short as she predicted.
