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Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
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Reims opened its gates to Joan on July 16, 1429, and on July 17, she stood by Charles’ side at his coronation. La Poucelle had accomplished her divine mission and crowned her king.
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A Gothic altar and the Joan of Arc Stone, "a niche stone that supported a statue of Our Lady and at which Joan of Arc (1412-1431) prayed" were transported from France with the dismantled chapel (Korom 129). Thus, the chapel was renamed after the French heroine and martyr.
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[A]nother view is that Joan of Arc hallucinated on a form of LSD. This came about accidentally from eating contaminated grain. The fungus ergot grows on grains such as rye (Secale), barley (Hordeum) and wheat (Triticium). Poor storage of grain, a common occurrence in the Middle Ages, allowed ergot to thrive. Ergot was known as "mad grain" and "drunken rye" because of the hallucinations it caused. The psychoactive ingredient in ergot is a form of LSD (lysergic diethylamide).
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Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was given troops to command and the rank of captain.
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To the English and their allies on the other hand, Joan was an unnatural and diabolical girl: a witch to be burnt at the stake. In a missive of 1429, the defeated English regent John Bedford described her as a 'superstitious and depraved individual…that disorderly and deformed travesty of a woman, who dresses like a man, whose life is dissolute' (Warner 1991:104).
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A commission presided over by Henri Wallon soon drafted a bill in the National Assembly proposing that May 8th be celebrated annually as a national holiday of "patriotism" to honor Joan of Arc. Monsieur Guérin saw this chiefly as a scheme of the Freemasons to take this French heroine back into their camp and to "secularize" her. (Le Normandy, 5/5/1894).
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