By 1428, what remained of free France seemed doomed to become another vassal province of England. All French lands north of the Loire River had been lost with Burgundian and Parisian soldiers now fighting on the side of the English.

That year a 17-year-old farm girl who had been receiving visions of the archangel, Michael, convinced what remained of the French nobility and a skeptical clergy to allow her to lead the dwindling French armies in their ever more desperate war to wrest France from British domination.

In the tradition of the “French Maiden,” Iranian heroines More »