Lorraine Is Not in the Bible — but Joan of Arc Was Born There



  • Lorraine is not in the Bible. It descends from Lotharingia, the ninth-century kingdom of Lothair, a grandson of Charlemagne.
  • The territory was fought over, partitioned and annexed repeatedly for a thousand years — French, then German, then French again within a single lifetime.
  • Joan of Arc was born at Domrémy in Lorraine around 1412, to a farming family, and was illiterate. She said she had heard voices since about thirteen.
  • She reached the dauphin, went to Orléans, and saw Charles VII crowned at Reims. Captured the next year, she was tried by a church court and burned at Rouen in 1431 at nineteen.
  • The verdict was overturned twenty-five years later and she was canonised in 1920 — a sequence worth remembering whenever institutions are confident.

Lorraine is not in the Bible. It is a region of France, and its most famous daughter was a teenage girl who said she heard voices and was burned for it. Where the name comes from Lorraine descends from Lotharingia — the kingdom of Lothair, a grandson of Charlemagne, carved out when the Frankish empire was divided in the ninth century. Over the next thousand years the territory was fought over, partitioned, annexed and returned more times than is easy…

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