Timeline

• 1412 Joan of Arc born in Domrémy in Lorraine
  
• 1428 The English begin their siege of Orléans
  
• 1429 Joan leads French armies in the liberation of Orléans and other cities; coronation of King Charles VII in Reims
  
• 1430 Joan captured by the Burgundians and later turned over to the English
  
• 1431 Joan put on trial in Rouen and burnt at the stake
  
• 1456 Joan declared officially innocent
  
• 1734-4 Voltaire in Cirey, on the border with Lorraine
  
• 1730 Voltaire starts writing La Pucelle (The Maid of Orléans)
  
• 1750 Sections of La Pucelle (The Maid of Orléans) are published anonymously
  
• 1751-53 Voltaire in Berlin
  
• 1755 La Pucelle (The Maid of Orléans) first published in its entirety – anonymously
  
• 1762 Voltaire acknowledges La Pucelle as his poem
  
• 1801 Friedrich von Schiller’s tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orléans)
  1920 Joan of Arc canonized and becomes patron saint of France
  
• 1945 On Liberation Day DeGaulle leads Free France march to her statue in Paris