It’s a story of fierce faith, dirty politics, venal churchmen, trust betrayed, patriotism abused and, most especially, a girl who called herself Joan the Virgin and was called by her enemies Joan the Whore and Joan the Witch and who, for the past hundred years, has been called Saint Joan. The story of Joan has been told many times over the past six centuries, and it will continue to be told for many centuries more. Long before she arrived at court, Joan had embarked on a prolonged visionary experience that would end only at her death…. Joan’s attention was elsewhere, already beyond the chateau, galloping ahead of her. If she felt any awe in entering the castle of a king, she showed none to her companions… If Joan was daunted by her arrival in a world so unlike her own, where wealth had the power to banish the squalor of peasant life, she betrayed no discomfort. It was early March of 1429 when Joan, a 17-year-old girl from rural Domremy, arrived in the city of Chinon to tell the Dauphin - Charles VII, the uncrowned king of France - that she had been sent from God to lead his soldiers.
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