Jeanne Hachette Against Charles The Bold

Making the myth of France: a repost

The town statue of Jeanne Laisné defending the walls of Beauvais installed in 1851 by Gabriel-Vital Dubray, in the third year of the reign of Napoleon III

When Charles I Duke of Burgundy, known to history as Charles the Bold, arrived under the walls of Roye in 1472, he “had never had such a fine army,” Philippe de Commines wrote in his memoir on The Reig…