Note: Most of my references come from the commonly abused Wikipedia; the rest are from other sites, things I've experienced, or from the official Hetalia comics/show.
I will be writing some guides where you could find where the notes are referring to—it's going to be like a treasure hunt. If I say which paragraph in general is being referred to, though, it's because the sentence is too long. Ha ha.
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Setting
-Françis
is in a meadow somewhere near a place called Domrémy-la-Pucelle. It
was previously just named Domrémy, but it was later annexed to the
province of Lorraine and got renamed.
-The time is around the year
2009. Ha ha.
Eighth Paragraph
-With
world being as it is, I decided to make Françis busy.
Eleventh Paragraph
-The
flower could be anything, but preferably not a rose. I'm not sure
if there is such a thing as a white iris, but let's settle to that
if there is any.
-I prefer that it would not be a rose because I
want a more "local" flower, and one of Arthur's national
flowers is a rose (the Tudor Rose, really). It feels weird, for me,
to make Françis present the opposition's national flower.
Fourteenth Paragraph
-The
girl is none other than Joan of Arc (or Jeanne d'Arc).
-In
Hetalia, she is known as that girl. I've read it somewhere
in the official comics.
Fifteenth Paragraph
-He
now remembers about the times Jeanne was still alive and what she had
to face.
-He recalled that she was supposed to be under that
cross.
-He reminded himself that the English (and Burgundians)
were involved in this. Thus, Arthur is somewhat indirectly referred
to in this fic.
Sixteenth Paragraph
-What
he is going back to happened in the early 1400s. That's really
a considerably long time.
Nineteenth Paragraph
-Jeanne
was born in the year 1412 and she died at the year 1431—presumably
nineteen years old at the time.
-Why Françis is not so certain
about her hair colour is simply because I see some people make her
blonde and, from others, brunette. Actually, she's really a
brunette. At least that's what I saw in Wikipedia. They provided a
picture of a portrait of her made in 1485—she had brown hair.
(Other portraits found in the site also had her with brown hair.)
Twentieth Paragraph
-Cutting
her hair was so that she'd look more like a man. She also wore
men's clothing to complete her look. This was because she would not
slow down in battle and the men she fought with would least likely
become tempted to molest her.
-The war they faced was the Hundred
Years War.
Twenty-fifth
Paragraph
-Historians agree that the army enjoyed numerous
victories during her time.
Thirty-second
Paragraph
-Remember, Françis is France. Ha ha.
Thirty-third Paragraph
-What
I mean by Françis feeling somewhat disheartened is because Jeanne is
a human and not a nation. To say things simply, they could never hope
for a couple-like relationship.
Thirty-sixth Paragraph
-I
wanted Françis to be guilty of the fact that when she had been
captured in an English and Burgundian siege at Compiѐgne, he could
not help her family pay the ransom. King Charles VII was condemned by
historians that he had failed to intervene, but I wanted Françis to
bring the blame to himself. This is why I said that Françis had
"betrayed" her.
-Before Jeanne was captured, an archer from
the opposing side had shot her down from her horse.
- Jeanne is a
religious sort of person. Obviously since that she would report that
she heard the voices from Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint
Margaret when she was around the age of twelve, and, of course, she
believes in God.
Thirty-seventh Paragraph
-The
bitterness from Françis to Arthur is because he was not only
involved, but the English soon bought Jeanne from the Burgundians and
had her in a prison.
-She was captured at 23rd May,
1430, so Françis skipped to the uneventful happening at 1431.
Thirty-ninth Paragraph
-Jeanne
was meant to be locked up with other women and guarded by
women—presumably nuns, but she was sent to a place full of men. She
was sexually assaulted.
-Because of what had happened to her, she
soon dressed as a man (though, there was also a testimony from Jean
Massieu that her clothes had been stolen and she had nothing else to
wear). Even when she "promised" to wear women's clothing again,
she went back to wearing men's clothing.
Fourtieth Paragraph
-Jeanne
was then subjected to repeating the offense of heresy; it was a
capital crime. The technical reason of her execution was from a
biblical clothing law.
-After the Hundred Years War had ended,
Jeanne's mother and Inquisitor-General Jean Brehal had requested
for a retrial. The court had declared Jeanne's innocence at 7th
July, 1456.
Fourty-first
Paragraph
-Jeanne's execution was that she was to be
burned while being tied to the pillar in the Vieux-Marche in Rouen.
Forty-fifth Paragraph
-
After Jeanne's body had been charred, the English raked the coal
over her again. It was to be sure that she could not escape. They
burned her twice more so that there would be nothing left of her but
ashes.
Forty-eighth Paragraph
-Aside
from the portraits made of her, I couldn't find that there was
anything left of her personal belongings. If there is any, then
Françis is wrong. Ha ha.
-There was a time when there was a jar
that supposedly contained Jeanne's remains, but it actually came to
be from an Egyptian mummy.
Forty-ninth Paragraph
-The
name of the executioner is Geoffroy Therage.
-Seine is a river
found in France.
Fifty-fifth Paragraph
-"A
bientôt" means "See you soon".
-"m'ange"
supposedly means "my angel". When one mumbles, I think that's
what you'll hear. I'm certain that this is wrong. 'Ange' is
what I found in my dictionary. My concern is that it is in masculine
form (maybe it's really like that). I just took a guess with
this—my apologies.
-Probably you could actually take this as an
inside joke of some sort. She had cross-dressed as a man,
right?
-Jeanne, in fact, became a saint in France, but I liked the
sound of Françis calling her his angel.
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I'm sorry for anything written that is rather rude or inappropriate.
If there are any mistakes to any
of these notes, I'll happily accept some new points of
information.
If there are any points of clarification, please
don't hesitate to ask.
