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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MAID OF ORLEANS I DOMREMY, FRAXCE 



More than five hundred years ago Joan of Arc was born in this old house. Though 

 considerably remodeled, it is essentially the same home in which her childhood and early 

 youth were spent. The statue in the foreground was placed there in honor of her memory. 

 History tells how this country girl, fired by heavenly visions of patriotic duty, inspired the 

 Prince to royal courage, led the army into battle, drove out the English, secured the rightful 

 sovereign's coronation at Rheims, and then — alas ! for the weakened ingratitude of man — 

 was given over by her own countrymen to the English, who burned her at the stake for a 

 witch, at Rouen. 



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