Moreover--" "Pardon the interruption, but I am not so sure that Jeanne d'Arc's intervention was a good thing for France." "Why not ?" "I will explain.

You know that the defenders of Charles were for the most part Mediterranean cut-throats, ferocious pillagers, execrated by the very people they came to protect.

The Hundred Years' War, in effect, was a war of the South against the North.

England at that epoch had not got over the Conquest and was Norman in blood, language, and tradition.
Suppose Jeanne d'Arc had stayed with her mother and stuck to her knitting.

Charles VII would have been dispossessed and the war would have come to an end.