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Orléans — A city of the middle Loire, the kingdom’s lock to the south
A Loire city whose fall would have opened the whole south of the kingdom to the English, and whose relief gave its nickname to the woman who led it. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded event that took place in Orléans: the siege of Orléans.
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