The difficulty in understanding the historical significance of Joan of Arc comes from the difficulty in understanding the nature of her miracle, which is: ANNOUNCING AND ACCOMPLISHING THE CHANGE AT THE SAME TIME. This is what the book of Gabriel Hanotaux, JEANNE D’ARC is uniquely capable of giving the reader the ability to grasp, when he understands the performative nature of the coincidence between her first meeting with Charles VII and the Pilgrimage of the Annunciation at Le Puy on Mach 25, 1429.
The key to understanding Joan of Arc is located in realizing that the purpose of her mission was the reconstruction of humanity in the simultaneity of eternity; that is to say, in discovering that such a miracle of transformation had to pass through the historical reconstruction of Charlemagne’s Unity of Europe: a Europe without religious divisions, a Europe without geopolitical tensions, a Europe without competitive nationalistic and oligarchical interests; in one word, a Europe entirely based on the principle of changing mankind through the benefit of the other.
Hanotaux’s book also makes you discover that if France had been taken over by the English, if during the short period of three years of Joan of Arc’s mission, it had been partitioned between England and the German controlled Burgundy, not only would France have been completely destroyed, but Christianity and Western Civilization as a whole would have also been eradicated from the surface of the Earth.
THE AXIOMATIC CHANGE OF JOAN OF ARC ACCORDING TO GABRIEL HANOTAUX
