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HACHETTE, JEANNE

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 793 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HACHETTE, JEANNE ,
French
  heroine. Jeanne Laine, or Fourquet, called Jeanne Hachette, was
born
  about 1454. We have no precise information about her family or origin. She is known solely for her act of heroism which on the 27th of June 1472 saved
Beauvais
  when it was on the point of being taken by the troops of
Charles
  the Bold,
duke
  of
Burgundy
 . The
town
  was defended by only 300 men-at-arms, commanded by Louis de Balagny. The Burgundians were making an assault, and one of their number had actually planted a flag upon the battlements, when Jeanne, axe in hand, flung herself upon him, hurled him into the moat, tore down the flag, and revived the drooping courage of the
garrison
 . In gratitude for this heroic
deed
 , Louis XI. instituted a procession in
Beauvais
  called the Procession of the Assault, and married Jeanne to her chosen lover Colin Pilon, loading them with favours.
See Georges Vallat, Jeanne Hachette (Abbeville, 1898).


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