French military leader and heroine. Inspired and directed by religious visions, she organized the French resistance that forced the English to end their siege of Orléans (1429). The same year she led an army of 12,000 to Rheims and had the dauphin crowned Charles VII. Captured and sold to the English by the Burgundians (1430), she was later tried for heresy and sorcery and was burned at the stake in Rouen. She was canonized in 1920.     圣女貞德（1412年1月6日－1431年5月30日)，被稱為「奧爾良的少女」，是法國的民族英雄、軍事家，天主教會的圣女，法國人心中的自由女神。英法百年戰(zhàn)爭（1337年－1453年）時她帶領法國軍隊對抗英軍的入侵，支持法查理七世加冕，為法國勝利做出貢獻。終被俘，被宗教裁判所以異端和女巫罪判處她火刑。 &…