Theoretically, Joan of Arc is not yet a saint because the Roman Church did not canonize her until 190.
However, because of her achievements, she has been worshiped and admired by the French people for hundreds of years. Everyone has already regarded her as a saint, so there is no problem in calling her "saint".
However, although the legend of Joan of Arc has been circulated among the people, since the end of the Hundred Years' War, French officials have not had many commemorative activities for her, although King Charles VII had already convicted her of being a "witch" shortly after she was burned to death.
She was rehabilitated, but in the following hundreds of years, she was only mentioned as a historical figure by the royal family, and not many grand honors were conferred on her, although she was fully worthy of it.
This is also easy to understand. The era that Joan of Arc lived in was the most chaotic, humiliating and painful era in France. France was invaded by foreign enemies and suffered successive defeats. The proud noble knights were defeated; the royal family was in decline and evil.
Suddenly, King Charles VI went crazy and could not manage his own affairs for a long time. He was captured by the enemy on the battlefield. While his Queen Yin Sabo encouraged her husband to betray the country, she publicly announced that her crown prince was an illegitimate son and was not qualified to inherit the throne; the government was also in trouble.
It was extremely chaotic and corrupt, and the two factions of nobles were at war with each other. No one was interested in resisting foreign enemies.
It was precisely because of the corruption and incompetence at the top and constant internal strife that the Kingdom of France, which was much larger than Britain at the time, was beaten to pieces by the British and suffered heavy casualties. As a result, towns and villages everywhere were ravaged by war, and almost the entire north fell to the enemy.
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The terrible misfortune has continued since then. War, famine and plague have gathered on this poor land at the same time, turning towns into ruins and turning villages into wilderness. All these tragedies have made almost everyone believe that the doomsday predicted in the Bible
It has already arrived.
When Joan of Arc went to visit King Charles VII, the poor king had neither soldiers nor money, and almost lost all hope. Orleans, his last territory in the north, seemed to be about to fall. Not only did his enemies despise him, but also everywhere
The feudal lords did not take him seriously, and even his mother publicly declared that he was an illegitimate son and unworthy of being a king, which shook his legitimacy...
Although this young man was lucky enough to be reincarnated into the most noble family, and as the youngest son, he was lucky enough to survive the death of all his older brothers, but the kingdom he wanted to inherit no longer belonged to him, and he looked like a poor man about to drown.
He desperately called for help, trying to grab a life-saving straw, but he only received contempt and ridicule from all directions.
If a king is not in a desperate situation, how can he be so desperate as to believe that a country girl can save the situation?
Fortunately, God took pity on him in the end. Since Jeanne d'Arc joined the king's service, the young King Charles VII's fortunes turned around and he survived a desperate situation. He grew up step by step, slowly expanded his own power, and finally finally succeeded.
Rebuilding the country and leading France out of this darkest era.
It's a pity that Joan of Arc herself has no luck in seeing such a bright ending.
All in all, if you study the history carefully, you will easily find that France suffered such a heavy disaster at that time not only because of the cruelty of the English, but also because of the internal strife in the royal family that lasted for decades.
The nobles of Burgundy and Armagnac were fighting each other, the king and queen were mad and extravagant, and the noble royal family members were competing to betray their country, performing scenes of scandals that were unbearable to watch.
Naturally, subsequent kings were unwilling to talk much about such "dark history". Who was willing to face up to the fact that the royal family had fallen into such a state? And who was willing to clarify who was responsible?
However, for Aigron, it's a different story.
He has no responsibility for the dark history of the past, and is not afraid to settle old accounts. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the Bonaparte family. He can just clear away the dusty history and give away all the great and noble auras to the ashes.
girl.
To him, it no longer matters what Joan of Arc is like. He only needs to abstract a few dazzling concepts from this girl: "patriotism", "piety", "dedication" and "victory".
And these things can be applied intact to the Bonaparte family and become the halo of Bonaparte and the empire.
"Teresa, this is a good idea!" When he thought of this, Aigron clapped his hands excitedly, "Let's follow this idea!"
Because of his clapping and shouting, subtle echoes suddenly appeared in the originally silent forest, which sounded a bit strange, but this did not affect Aigron's excitement at all.
He took Teresa's hand enthusiastically and said, "Let's go back, I have an idea."
"What do you think?" Teresa asked quickly.
"If we want to impress ordinary people, especially the illiterate villagers in the countryside, words are not as good as pictures, so we will use pictures to instill in them the concepts you just mentioned," Aigron replied excitedly.
Yes, in the eyes of people nowadays, "Joan Arc is a saint who saves the country" and "Joan Arc is a devout believer". These two items are people's consensus.
So if people get the impression that "Joan of Arc and the Bonaparte family stand together", then "the Bonaparte family defends the country, and the Bonaparte family is a devout defender of the faith", it is naturally self-evident.
As long as such an impression is established on people, these villagers will naturally be spiritually close to the Bonaparte family. In this way, the spiritual image established by the Bourbon family based on tradition will naturally be greatly affected.
challenge.
Aiglon does not need to let the Bonaparte family immediately break the inherent impression formed over thousands of years. He only needs to make the villagers shake their original impression a little, which is enough to make them no longer loyal to the Bourbon royal family.
Teresa was a little confused about Aigron's sudden excitement, but seeing Aigron's full energy, she couldn't bear to pour cold water on him, so she followed Aigron back to the farm obediently.
At Agron's urging, she took out her pencil and prepared to draw the picture he conceived for him.
"I want to draw a girl in armor, riding a tall horse, holding a flagpole and a flag in both hands. Note that the flag is not the King of Iris flag but the red, white and blue tricolor flag... Behind her is a chariot pulled by four horses.
A chariot, with Emperor Napoleon standing on top of it wearing a Guards uniform and a bicorn hat.
Surrounding the chariot and the girl are angels, and under the horses' hooves are clouds. They launch an expedition towards the scorching sun; and behind them, flying imperial eagles, they represent victory and glory.
The girl must be beautifully painted, very beautiful! Her long hair and the flag are fluttering in the wind, and she is majestic yet charming. She must lead the Bonaparte family and France forward!"
Teresa listened silently to her husband's creative ideas. After listening, she did not start writing immediately.
"Your Highness, according to historical records, Joan of Arc was a girl with short hair. After all, she had to march and fight at that time. If she had long hair in the military camp, it would affect her health..." Teresa put forward her own opinion, "Moreover, Joan of Arc was extremely brave.
, not necessarily a slender girl..."
Theresa questioned, but did not shake Aigron's will at all. Aiglon solemnly refuted Theresa.
"Dear Teresa, you should know that not many people love history, but everyone loves beautiful girls. We should stand on the side of the majority! When people talk about a famous girl in history, they usually assume that she is very beautiful.
She is beautiful, otherwise what interest would there be in talking about her?"
"But besides beauty, girls also have many shining qualities!" Teresa couldn't help but retort. "In my opinion, Joan of Arc's noble character, her bravery and tenacity, her desire for victory and
Persistence is far more precious than her appearance."
"Yes, it is true, but for a girl, it is an add-on." Aiglon shrugged, "We cannot go against the people's wishes. The people hope that she will be a beautiful girl with brilliant blond hair and possessions that no one else can
We should fulfill their wishes and give them a Joan of Arc who is as beautiful as she is, free from dust and blood, and she must be like this."
"Actually, it's His Highness's own hobby..." Teresa couldn't help complaining.
But since Aigron insisted, she had no choice but to obey her husband's opinion.
Of course, in fact, she is not that resistant psychologically. After all, Joan of Arc has been dead for hundreds of years. Who she is is irrelevant to Teresa. The important thing is that she is doing her husband a favor.
This is her working hard for the couple's career. This is where Teresa thinks she is happy.
In her husband's detailed description, she had roughly sketched an outline in her mind. Then she took a pencil and sketched on the sketchbook one stroke at a time. Gradually, the lines that appeared on the paper slowly appeared.
Images were formed one by one, and finally a picture was roughly formed.
After it was roughly completed, Teresa looked at the sketch carefully, then made a few minor modifications with a pencil, and then handed the sketch to her husband.
Aigron took the drawing and looked at it carefully. Although it was just a sketch, the lines were already quite smooth and detailed, and it roughly restored the scene that Aigron had just described.
Aigron's eyes passed over the Imperial Eagle, Angel and the Former Emperor, and then naturally fell on the girl.
This is indeed a very beautiful girl, but she is also arrogant and cold. Her sharp eyes, the armor she wears, and the galloping horse at her hip make her have that heroic temperament.
Although she, her mount, and the flag in her hand are not colored, even so, you can still feel the beauty and unique charm of this girl.
If Joan of Arc knew better, she would probably be angry that a Corsican landowning family whose name she had never heard dared to impersonate her name and regard her as their own banner. This girl who was devoutly loyal to the royal family and martyred for it would probably be angry.
You have to go crazy...
However, there was nothing she could do after all. After all, the dead could only be dressed up by others.
All historical figures, no matter how great they were, can only become puppets used by others after their death. Various people, with various purposes, use their once-prominent name to embellished themselves, change their words and phrases, and practice them.
What can he do when he least wants to see something happen?
Aegron will be like this in the end.
He could only hope that the nearest few generations of his descendants would be capable, lest he be ridiculed and humiliated soon after his death. As for what happened in the next few generations, no one could control it, and he didn't care.
"Your Highness, are you dissatisfied?" Seeing Aigron studying the pictures in silence, Teresa became a little nervous.
"No... Teresa, I'm very satisfied, so satisfied! I really didn't expect that you could draw the image I wanted so easily..." Aigron couldn't help but praise his wife. "Tere
Sarah, you are actually a cartoonist who was delayed by the title of princess."
But Teresa was a little confused, "What is a cartoonist?"
There was no such profession in this era, and it would not appear until the late Industrial Revolution when the European people were becoming more educated and the newspaper industry was booming.
But even so, she felt Aigron's excitement and praise, which was enough for her.
"I haven't touched a paintbrush for a long time, and I'm still a bit rusty. I will perform better in the future."
Eggron ignored his wife's modesty. He continued to look at the pencil drawing and imagined what it would look like after it was colored.
However, the more he looked at this girl, the more he felt a vague sense of familiarity.
"This portrait looks a bit like a person," he blurted out.
Then, he suddenly realized. "Agnes! It's so similar. Isn't this Miss Agnes?"
Indeed, although it is not exactly the same, once you think of Agnes, you can immediately recognize her appearance from her eyebrows
When she heard him call out this name, Teresa was a little surprised and even more distressed, but she quickly concealed these emotions.
"You actually recognized it so easily..." She smiled bitterly. "That's right... When I was imagining it in my mind, I looked for the image you hoped for in what I saw and heard, and then
Miss Agnes's heroic appearance in defeating your officers that night suddenly came to mind. That scene was so impressive to me that I have never seen it on other girls of the same age.
Such temperament and style, so I drew this image based on her appearance..."
Although Teresa felt some unspeakable bitterness towards Miss Agnes, she had to admit that this lady did possess the brilliance of Shining Eyes. If she were asked to find other templates, she would not be able to find anything comparable.
When she said this, Aigron understood why Theresa was able to find the feeling so quickly. It turned out that there was already a "model".
"It's indeed quite suitable... She gives people that feeling." Aigron nodded, "It's a pity that France doesn't need her to lead troops to fight and save the country... Hey, what do you think, if we ask her to play the role one day?
It will definitely be interesting if you look at this image, right?"
"I think it's probably not necessary." Teresa shook her head slightly. "Why bother with her life?" (To be continued.)