What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
The Cross of Lorraine, the symbol of French patriot Joan of Arc, was adopted as the symbol of the Free French. On Sept. 24, 1941, Free France formally created the French National Committee, an organization that became the basis of de Gaulleâs provisional government when the Allies returned to France in 1944.