Non-musical history for today: 1429 – During the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieged La Charité. I know I’ve talked a lot about her, but the commune of La Charité still stands and is known as La Charité-sur-Loire (Charity upon the Loire River). After the French Revolution, a highway was supposed to run through the church, but Prosper Mérimée, an inspector of monuments for France, deemed it worthy of saving. Mérimée wrote the novella Carmen, which turns this whole thing a bit musical. Georges Bizet took that novella and used it for his most famous opera, Carmen. I love stuff like that.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for November 24.

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