Joan and the Bells – Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2

1429 was the 92nd year of the Hundred Years’ War. Three generations of French had been bloodied in the disasters of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt.  In the spring of that year an illiterate peasandt girl told first the Governor of her region and then the Dauphin, that she had been chosen by God to drive the English back to their shores. She was given a few soldiers and sent to join the defense of Orleans. She led the French army to Victory.