# The 8 September 1429 assault on Paris fails with documented military and civilian cost

Date: 1429

## The fact

On 8 September 1429 Valois forces including Joan assaulted Paris and failed. Joan was wounded.

## Context

A captain who lifts one siege can still join a costly failed storm of another city. Split the rows. Do not rebate Paris with Orléans.

[Joan of Arc](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

French public-record portals and Britannica independently date the 8 September 1429 failure.

Official or archival record: Archives nationales (France) (https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/; Archives nationales).

## Significance

Humanitarian-cost path. High confidence on the failed assault.

A wound is not a miracle. It is a military-cost date.

## What is established and what is not

Established: failed Paris assault 8 September 1429 with Joan present and wounded. Not established: a complete civilian death roll in this catalog.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Joan of Arc: https://factrail.ai/people/joan-of-arc

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc
- https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-paris-assault-1429