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Joan la Pucelle

Joan la Pucelle.
Champion of the French forces in 1 Henry VI, her offer of body and soul to fiends, 5.3, fails to save her from the English. Based on the national heroine of France, Joan of Arc (1412–31). Shakespeare has followed the anti-French history of Holinshed.

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