Joan of Arc. The Truth?"Joan of Arc was an asexual skinhead who liked dressing in men's clothes.
She was a fundamentalist fanatic high on religious nationalism.
She pioneered ethnic cleansing.
She was a right-wing warmongering bigot who was captured by the French, tried by the French and was sentenced to be burnt alive by the French.
She was a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur.
She was reinvented by historians in the nineteenth century, hijacked by chauvinistic politicians and in a complete about turn canonised by the Catholic Church."
Just one point of view expressed in "Joan of Arc. The Truth?". If it is an image which conflicts with the one everyone is taught then that is because the ten thousand statues, five thousand books, innumerable paintings, plays and films unwittingly followed a party line which was designed to establish Joan as a sort of French female Christ. Yet 'Unsaint Joan' is a credible alternative to come out of the fascinating and for once balanced debate in "Joan of Arc. The Truth?"
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