What does it mean to be Jeannesque?
In
la Saint-République Orléanaise, the Orléanaise and their wards d'Française strive in all ways to be
Jeannesque, meaning to live their lives in the way sanctioned and embodied by the Maid of Orléans, Jeanne d'Arc. She who was chosen by God to lead her people against the wicked, she who was pure, béloved and déified, in the Holy Republic of Orleans all citizens worship her and strive to be like her. All women know and are known to have within them this potential in the fullest; all men know and are known to be
Charlesque, with the ability to fulfill noble duties and accept the holiness of Jeanne.
To be
Jeannesque is to be noble: to stare at danger, death, and dismay, and fear nothing, for they know no material danger can harm their immortal soul, no dismay can displace the love of god, and no death can put them beyond the reach of martyrdom.
To be
Jeannesque is to be pious: to know the love of Christ and the love of God, to worship Him, and to be humble before his sacrifice, and strive to be
Christlike as well.
To be
Jeannesque is to be strong: to wield the sword and the shield, to be an iron curse upon the wicked and a steadfast guardian of the weak. To hoist a banner and to feel the power of Christ within, for to bring His awesome and Holy might to bear against the forces of Lucifer.
Always to be
Jeannesque is to choose goodness and righteousness, bravery and diligence, humility and charity, love and purity. To suffer not the ungood, the unrighteous, the cowardly, the slothful, the vainglorious, the selfish, the hateful, and the corrupt.
Deus Vult, and may He use you as He used the Maid of Orléans.
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The Holy Republic of Orléans is the sixth French Republic, led by the pioneering movement of the Orléanists, who declared the great plague a punishment of God's. They seek now to make France moral and righteous once more, and have instituted in their laws and institutions the restorational values of Christianity and the political-religious school of thought known as
Orléanisme. The women of Orléanisme, as vanguards of purity, lead the Holy Republic in all things, and from the elite ranks of their political clergy the guardians of Orléanisme are selected to lead the Holy Republic, to strengthen its borders, to maintain order, and to keep purity.
The Holy Republic, it has been noted, is motivated in pursuing a theocratic republican state with restored and novel religious values inspired, rather peculiarly, by what it deems one of few other pure states in recent history: the Islamic Republic of Iran.