05/27/2022 It’s Joan of Arc, the Original French Fry! ___JOKE-OGRAPHY:1. St. Joan of Arc w
05/27/2022 It’s Joan of Arc, the Original French Fry! ___JOKE-OGRAPHY:1. St. Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who claimed to hear the voices of saints telling her to lead the French army against the English and have Charles VII crowned king of France. Some French folks, like the Armagnacs, were loyal to Charles, but others, like the Burgundians, were loyal to the English, instead.2. Before Joan’s forces broke the siege of Orléans (her first great conquest), she had her army take a break from fighting for Ascension Thursday, a feast day we just passed, and one Joan thought too holy for battle. On that day she had a scribe write a letter warning the English to go home or face God’s wrath. In this cartoon, she delivers this message personally.3. The French version of Joan of Arc’s name is Jeanne d'Arc. In the final panel of this cartoon, the soldier mutters, “That’s a bit dark,” but “dark” is spelled “d'Arc”, because he’s talking about how dark Jeanne d'Arc’s comment was.4. At the age of about 19, Joan was found guilty of heresy by a slanted court led by a bishop who was loyal to England. They refused to let her case be heard by the actual pope, and they also refused her pleas for mass, communion, and confession throughout the process. They burned her alive on May 30th, 1431. Fifteen years later, the Church was called to reexamine the case, this time with the pope involved, and her conviction was overturned. Of course, that didn’t overturn her death, but she was eventually made a saint, so that’s pretty neat. Anyway, with Ascension Thursday AND the anniversary of her execution being so close this year, I figured a Joan of Arc cartoon was long overdue. -- source link
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