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Joan of Arc was a15th century French heroine. She was born a peasant girl in eastern France who grew up to lead the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old.
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About Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1845–1916),was a Scottish Liberal politician, sculptor and writer from the Leveson-Gower family. He was the youngest son of George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Member of Parliament for Sutherland from 1867–1874 after which he was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and of the Birthplace and Shakespeare Memorial Building at Stratford-on-Avon. He also wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, and a history of the Tower of London, and is widely believed to be the inspiration for the model character in Oscar Wilde’s A Portrait of Dorian Gray.