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The 1429 Loire operations reopen towns previously cut by English garrisons

In June 1429 the Valois Loire campaign cleared a string of English-held posts after Orléans. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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In June 1429 the Valois Loire campaign cleared a string of English-held posts after Orléans. This Fact stores the corridor reopening as access, not as a second copy of 8 May.

Context

Siege economies and garrison taxation are welfare machines. Clearing them is not the same as the Reims rite and not the same as the later Paris assault’s deaths.

Joan of Arc is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Access path. High confidence that the corridor opened; medium on harvest statistics not in this file.

A corridor is not a coronation and not a failed Paris assault.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Joan of Arc

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    She campaigned along the Loire after Orléans. Towns, barges, and other captains reopened the road.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Saint Joan of ArcEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Orléans MétropoleOrléans Métropole · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Orléans Métropole campaign memory and Britannica independently describe the June Loire sequence.

Established: June 1429 Loire posts fell in Joan’s campaign season. Not established: a tonnage series of grain saved.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJoan of Arc
  2. contributed toFactThe 1429 Loire operations reopen towns previously cut by English garrisons
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). The 1429 Loire operations reopen towns previously cut by English garrisons. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-loire-food-1429

https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-loire-food-1429

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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