Kusan duk wadannan fadace-fadace sun faru ne a Faransa, kuma sojojin Ingila sun yi amfani da dabarun chevauchée (halakawa "ƙasa mai ƙonewa") sun lalata tattalin arzikin. Yawan jama'ar Faransa bai dawo da girmansa na farko ba tun lokacin da Black Death na tsakiyar karni na 14, kuma 'yan kasuwar ta an ware su daga kasuwannin waje. Kafin bayyanar Joan na Arc, Ingilishi ya kusan cimma burin su na sarauta biyu a ƙarƙashin ikon Ingilishi kuma sojojin Faransa ba su sami wata babbar nasara ba ga ƙarni. A cikin kalmomin DeVries, "Mulkin Faransa ba ma inuwa ce ta sarautar Faransa ta ƙarni na goma sha uku ba". A lokacin haihuwar sarki Joan na arewacin Faransa, Duke Charles VI, Duke na Armagnac, wanda ya yi nasara a kan 'ya'yansa da yawa a watan Oktoba na 1418 da aka haife shi a matsayin sarki na Faransa, ya yi nasara a kan' yan adawa da' yan adawa da suka yi nasara a kan mahaifinsa, Duke Louis VII, Duke na Burgundy, kuma daga baya aka ba shi suna "Ranar da' yan adawa da'uwa a cikin
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