Joan of Arc, during the failed siege of Paris in which she was wounded, kept food out of the city for almost 20 days, unembarrassed that she was starving and sickening the Parisians

Joan of Arc, during the failed siege of Paris in which she was wounded, kept food out of the city for almost 20 days, unembarrassed that she was starving and sickening the Parisians. Of course, this looks like a perfectly normal part of siege strategy. But the point lies not in the practice but in the fact that the inhabitants of the city, naturally, hated her, and it is hardly surprising that most of the French took Joan for a sorceress and a wanton until a new myth of the saviour of France was constructed