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JEANNE HACHETTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEANNE

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HACHETTE  ,
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French heroine . Jeanne Laine, or Fourquet, called Jeanne
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Hachette, was
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born about 1454 . We have no precise
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information about her
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family or origin . She is known solely for her
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act of heroism which on the 27th of
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June 1472 saved
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Beauvais when it was on the point of being taken by the troops of
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Charles the Bold,
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duke of
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Burgundy . The
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town was defended by only 300 men-at-arms, commanded by
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Louis de Balagny . The Burgundians were making an
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assault, and one of their number had actually planted a
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flag upon the battlements, when Jeanne,
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axe in
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hand, flung herself upon him, hurled him into the
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moat, tore down the flag, and revived the drooping courage of the
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garrison . In gratitude for this heroic
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deed, Louis XI. instituted a procession in Beauvais called the Procession of the Assault, and married Jeanne to her chosen
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lover
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Colin Pilon, loading them with favours . See Georges Vallat, Jeanne Hachette (
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Abbeville, 1898) .

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