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Background
France, 1428–1429 Controlled by the English and their allies

Lands of Philip of Burgundy (English ally)

France loyal to Charles VII The Hundred Years' War had begun in 1337 as an inheritance dispute over the French throne, interspersed with occasional periods of relative peace. Nearly all the fighting had taken place in France, and the English army's use of chevauchée tactics (destructive "scorched earth" raids) had devastated the economy.[9] The French population had not regained its former size since the Black Death of the mid-14th century, and its merchants were isolated from foreign markets. This is a test edit. Before the appearance of Joan of Arc, the English had nearly achieved their goal of a dual monarchy under English control and the French army had not achieved any major victories for a generation. In the words of DeVries, "The kingdom of France was not even a shadow of its thirteenth-century prototype."[10]