Possible Clues:

• Sounds as if 14 down was made of this
• Salerno manufactured cloth
• Loire town
• Siege raised by Joan of Arc
• Sounds like what Joan was made of
• Borders around an historic French city
• French city or town Austrian leader captured
• See 14 down, or one is inclined to be in France
• French city liberated from English rule in 1429
• Joan of Arc was known as the Maid of . . . . . . .