Joan of Arc

          On January sixth around the year of 1412, Joan of Arc was born to Jacques d’arc and his wife Isabelle.  She was born in a little village of Domeremy, within the Barrios region on the border of eastern France.  She was christened “Jehanne” (“Joan” or “Joanna”), apparently after her mother’s sister Jehanne Lassois.  Her childhood was spent among the pastures and meadows of the Meuse River Valley, during a period in which events were already setting the stage for her later life.  Although she was born a peasant girl, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years’ War .