joan of arc was the peasant girl who fought against england with the french troops.
joan of arc was the peasant girl who fought against england with the french troops.
who was the peasant girl who fought against england with the french troops?
joan of arc
the last centuries of the middle ages saw the waging of the hundred years' war between england and france. the war began in 1337 when the king of france laid claim to english-ruled gascony in southern france, and the king of england claimed to be the rightful king of france. at first, the english conquered half of france and seemed likely to win the war, until the french were rallied by a peasant girl, who would later become a saint, joan of arc. although she was captured and executed by the english, the french fought on and won the war in 1453. after the war, france gained all of normandy excluding the city of calais, which it gained in 1558.
history of western civilization
don pedro's followers sing the chorus "the queen in the palace". pedro plans to capture the queen and send her to a convent (substituting the peasant girl) if she will not marry him. he is, however, uncertain whether his plot will work ("though fortune darkly o'er me frowns"). they all leave, and elvira and her attendants arrive. she sings the ballad "of girlhood's happy days i dream" (also known as "the convent cell"). manuel is now granted an audience with the queen. he tells her of his meeting with the peasant girl and boy, and of his belief that they were the queen and carmen. the ladies ridicule him (trio: "i'm not the queen, ha ha!"). he tells elvira of don pedro's plan, and she arranges for the duchess of calatrava, heavily veiled, to impersonate her. the duchess is duly carried off to a convent, but pedro and florio still have not located the peasant girl. suddenly, she (elvira in disguise again) appears, singing "i'm but a simple peasant maid". she vanishes, and the queen, once again appearing as herself, declares, to general consternation, that she intends to marry the muleteer.
the rose of castille