www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 1 of 6 JEANNE D’ARC AND THE BURGUNDIAN QUESTION by Pierre Beaudry, 3/12/2015 “If you want to end war once and for all, get rid of British geopolitics.” Dehors Debonneheure What was the historical form of zeusian imperialism that Jeanne d’Arc had to fight against and was able to partially destroy within France by her martyrdom?” The short answer in one word is: “Burgundy.” The Burgundians had emigrated from the Nordic regions of Scandinavia, most notably from the Baltic Island of Bornholm (Island of the Burgundians). After reaching the West Bank of the Rhine River in 496 AD, the Burgundians settled into a region that became known as the Kingdom of Burgundy. The original borders of Burgundy reached into Germany, Savoy, and Switzerland and were historically centered on modern day Lyon, France. The Burgundy Kingdom was taken over by the Franks in 532 AD and the Burgundians became assimilated within the Merovingian kingdoms. However, throughout history, the Kingdom of Burgundy and much later, the Duchy of Burgundy, have been used as an imperialist thorn in the eastern side of France. Why? What is of interest, here, is not Burgundy, per se, or the Burgundians. It is how Burgundy was successively used for imperial purposes by Venice, by the Black Death English invaders, by the Habsburg Empire, by the two French Empires, and again, by the British Empire in World War I and World War II. The reason why is because of British geopolitics, because of www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 2 of 6 Burgundy’s so-called “geographical location.” Burgundy is a border region, and wherever you have a border people between two other powers, you have the fallacy of composition called British geopolitics. It is in that sense that Burgundy is to Germany and France what Ukraine is to Russia and Western Europe. But, why did the British invent geopolitics? Why did they choose to manipulate border peoples located between two other powers? What is the logic behind such a fallacy of composition? As Lyn demonstrated, the answer to that question goes back to the Greek myth of Zeus and Prometheus, the actual western origin of imperialism. And, the intention behind Zeusian Imperialism is to reduce the number and control the growth of human beings on this planet. That is why the British oligarchy wishes to maintain their imperialist power over the world today, and use the dumb Americans to do their biddings. So, the question is: how do you prevent such a genocidal policy from being implemented? How do you prevent being set up like the Burgundians? The solution is simple, but very difficult to implement. It is by hammering your own personality like Jeanne d’Arc did before and during her military campaigns, to the point where you become impervious to such an imperial design. In other words, when you act in accordance with your your own inner truth, regardless of the consequences. The time has come when world leaders must deal with their Burgundians within and demonstrate their moral fiber in response to the present crisis by displaying innerdirectedness as opposed to otherdirectedness. This is what every citizen of the world is also capable of accomplishing today. Figure 1 Jeanne d’Arc from the Rheims Cathedral. I know of at least six moments in history when Burgundy was used as a conflict area to trigger a war between France and Germany for precisely the intention just cited above. www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 3 of 6 1) After Charlemagne’s three grandsons divided the Carolingian Kingdom into three different warring regions, notably, Francia, Lotharingia (Burgundy), and Germania at the Treaty of Verdun of 843, the Venetians orchestrated the Norman invasion of Europe. See map Figure 2. 2) During the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), when Jeanne d’Arc saved France from the English-Burgundian alliance, the Burgundians had reconstructed almost the entire original Lotharingia region including the control over the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg, but with the exception of Lorraine, Savoy, Dauphiné, and Provence. See map Figure 3. 3) During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the Spanish Habsburg had total control of Lotharingia region and used it as a corridor during the Eighty Years War of the Netherlands. 4) Lotharingia was the prize again during World War One (1914-1918), when France took Alsace and Lorraine back from Germany. 5) Lotharingia was also a pretext for World War II (1939-1945), when the Nazis took Alsace and Lorraine back in addition to the rest of France and Europe. 6) The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 was a return to Lotharingia’s imperial policy. Since then, Europe has been run by an imperial satrapy located in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which has eliminated the sovereign nation states of Europe and pitted each against the other under the guise of a monetary unity policy called the Euro. The intentional imperial design of Lotharingia was to create a buffer state between France and Germany in order to keep them separated. The name Lotharingia (Lothringen) disappeared at the end of the Middle Age and was substituted with the name of Lorraine, the birthplace of Jeanne d’Arc. www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 4 of 6 Figure 2 Lotharingia was an extension of the ancient Burgundy Kingdom of France into Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands, which was created by the three treasonous grandsons of Charlemagne, Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair at the Treaty of Verdun, in 843. www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 5 of 6 Figure 3 The Burgundian territories (orange and yellow) after the 1477 victory of Louis XI against the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold. All of the Duchies and Counties of France joined Louis XI to create France, the first nation state of Europe, at the exception of the Burgundy part of Lotharingia which became Hapsburg imperial territory. www.amatterofmind.us From the desk of Pierre Beaudry Page 6 of 6 If one looks at how the borders of France with Germany kept changing throughout history, one will not be surprised to see that the Rhine River has been, since Charlemagne, the moving boundary between war and peace in Europe as a whole. Solve the problem of the imperial design of Lotharingia (Burgundy) and you will discover the peace of Europe. At the siege of Compiegne (1430) Jeanne d’Arc was captured by the Burgundians and handed over to the English for trial as a witch. She was tried by the pro-English Catholic Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, on spurious charges, was declared guilty, and was burnt twice at the stake on May 30, 1431, at the age of 19. Twenty five years later, Pope Callixtus III reexamined the case, found her innocent, and declared her martyr. She was canonized as Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, Protector of France, in 1920. For a strategic understanding of Jeanne d’Arc’s mission, see THE MILITARY GENIUS OF JEANNE D’ARC AND THE CONCEPT OF VICTORY by Irene Beaudry. When Louis XI created the nation state of France in 1477, after winning the Burgundian War against Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, the territories of Low Burgundy (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) and of High Burgundy reverted to Emperor Maximilian I of Austria by marriage. The only territory the English had not relinquished, at that time, was the port city of Calais on the English Channel, a back door that had been left open to let the Black Death of the English in. See my report on AUGUSTE RODIN’S THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS AND THE BLACK DEATH POLICY OF THE ENGLISH. FIN .