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Saint Joan of Arc
Variant of Joan of Arc
(Fr. name Jeanne d'Arc) 1412-31; Fr. heroine: defeated the English at Orléans (1429): burned at the stake for witchcraft: called the Maid of Orléans
also Saint Joan of Arc
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