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What happened to the verdict that condemned Joan of Arc in 1431?
The retrial heard her childhood neighbours and old comrades and condemned the original proceedings. The girl burned as a heretic at nineteen became patron saint of France.
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Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431), an illiterate peasant girl guided by voices she attributed to saints, turned the Hundred Years War: she broke the siege of Orléans in nine days and saw the Dauphin crowned at Reims. Captured and sold to the English, she was burned as a heretic at Rouen aged about nineteen — retried and cleared 25 years later, canonised in 1920.
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