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(Wednesday, May 30, 1431) — Joan of Arc, a 19-year-old French woman who said she had been sent to help Charles VII during the Hundred Years’ War, was burned at the stake today at the Old Marketplace in Rouen after a pro-English church court overseen by English commanders found her guilty of heresy.

The trial verdict was later reversed on appeal by Jean Bréhal, the Inquisitor-General in 1456, thereby completely exonerating her.

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Considered a French national heroine, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.

Her trial is one of the most famous in history, becoming the subject of many books and films.