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In 1429, a peasant girl from Domrémy heard divine voices and inspired the French to military victories that seemed impossible. She crowned a king. She became a symbol of French resistance. Then she was captured, sold to the English for ten thousand francs, and put on trial for heresy.

What followed was a carefully orchestrated ecclesiastical proceeding designed to destroy not just Joan, but the legitimacy of the king she had crowned. Eighty learned men, biased judges, predetermined verdicts—everything was rigged against her.

Yet Joan maintained her conviction through months of interrogation. Then, facing immediate death by fire on May 24, 1431, she broke. She signed a document renouncing her voices, her mission, everything. But within days, her conviction returned. The voices came back. She recanted her recantation.

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