Jeanne Hatchet

Jeanne Laisné (November 14th 1454 -?), known under the name of Jeanne Hachette (15th century) is an emblematic figure of French resistance vis-a-vis Charles Bold the.

Biography

In 1472, Charles Bold the invades the north of the kingdom of France, helped by Jean II of Alençon. After sweephaving very swept on its passage, it put the seat in front of Beauvais. According to the tradition, Jeanne Laisné, a living young person of the city, seizes an axe to push back Burgundian which jumped of its scale of attack. Enhardies, the women of the city carry powder and weapons to the combatants, throwing themselves on the attackers of the stones or ebullient oil. 80 000 attackers were thus pushed back, and the projection of Charles Bold the in France was stopped Net.

Posterity

Louis XI instituted in his honor the procession of the Attack, and the memory of Jeanne Hachette (because it was indicated thus at once), today is celebrated with Beauvais by a procession in costumes of time last Sunday of June. On this occasion, the women precede the men in the procession. A monumental statue of heroin, works of Gabriel-Vital Dubray, throne in the center of the place of the town hall, and its name was given to the one colleges of the city, old college of young girls.

Although its action is completely comparable with that of Jeanne d' Arc - the Burgundy was then a country quite as dreaded as the England - it was somewhat eclipsed by that of its famous colleague.

The decisive action of the women of Beauvais achieves the unanimity among the historians, but of the voices calling into question the authenticity of the exploits allotted to Jeanne Hachette rise at the 19th century. In an article entitled the hearsays of the history , the scholar Paulin Paris deny even the existence of Jeanne Hachette in February 1850.

The defense of Beauvais per Jeanne Hachette constitutes the purple passage of the film the Miracle of the wolves of Raymond Bernard, realized in 1924.

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