{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Hundred Years' War - Part 4: The Maid and the Martyr","description":"The air hangs heavy with defeat. English banners fly over Paris, and hope seems lost. Yet in the darkest hour, a voice rises from the countryside—a voice that will change the fate of nations. This is the moment the tide turns.\r\n\r\nBy the late fourteen twenties, the English grip on France is iron-clad. The Treaty of Troyes names Henry the Fifth of England as heir to the French throne. King Charles the Sixth of France, broken by madness, is powerless. Paris is occupied. The city’s streets echo with foreign boots, and the people of France are weary, hungry, and desperate. Villages lie in ruins. Fields are nothing but mud and ash. The countryside mourns, scarred by years of marching armies and burning torches. In the south, the dauphin Charles—disinherited, exiled, and clinging to hope—gathers what loyalists he can.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://theconflictarchive.com/conflict/hundred-years-war","author_name":"The Archive Network"}