Sharon Curcio
Sharon Curcio graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a B.A. in Humanities and from Washington University (STL) with an MBA. Sharon worked in marketing for major corporations in the New York area, and even landed her dream job as copywriter for a Madison Avenue Ad Agency (Benton & Bowles).
Next Sharon moved to Miami, where she taught as an adjunct professor for several universities (Florida International University and the University of Miami), earned her Florida Teaching Credential, taught high school English and joined the USAR as an Intelligence Analyst. Sharon lived in Miami for a decade before moving to California in 1992.
In California Sharon served as a project officer for the Army Reserves for six years and then returned to high school teaching. From 2003-2004 active duty called Sharon to Guantanamo Bay to conduct intelligence analysis. In 2013 Sharon’s mother moved to California, and Sharon was her primary caretaker until April 2022, when her mother passed. Sharon retired from the USAR as a CW-4 in 2012, then retired from teaching in 2018. Sharon taught student teachers online for National University from 2019-2021. In retirement Sharon wrote five screenplays, two with a co-writer. In 2022 Sharon had some of her poetry published in online journals, but getting a script produced has now become Sharon’s full-time job!
Sharon served on the Board of Operation New Hope (2012-2014), an educational program to help high risk youth finish high school, and now volunteers with various Canyon Lake service groups engaged in outreach activities.
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AUTHOR’S NOTES
The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was won by English King Henry V, who broke the rules and killed captured French nobles. Hence the English walked in and had taken over 80% of France by the time Joan and Charles met.
In May of 1420, Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of the mentally ill King Charles VI of France was forced by the English to sign the Treaty of Troyes which prohibited her children, now only her remaining son, Dauphin Charles, from claiming the French throne.
Yolande of Aragon had sheltered Charles within her court and away from the English for years and married him to her daughter, Marie of Anjou.
Joan of Arc actually met the Dauphin under the auspices of Yolande and it is speculated that Yolande financed Joan’s campaign to have Charles crowned. After all, Yolande wanted her grandchildren to inherit the French throne. As the English captured Joan and had the Ecclesiastical Court (Church of Rome) prosecute and execute her for heresy, the English attacked the new King Charles VII as punishment for his defiance. Charles VII spent twenty five years routing the English from France.
Isabelle Romee, Joan’s mother, appealed to Charles VII for years to take her daughter’s case to the Pope to clear Joan of heresy charges. Charles VII complied, and made repeated requests until the Pope finally granted an appeals court in 1449, and under Pope Callixtus III Joan’s heresy conviction was overturned in 1456. Isabelle Romee lived into her early eighties—an age few commoners ever reached—and died in 1558.