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Everything seems hopeless. her country is being seized be invaders. The King, with all thoughts of reclaiming his throne forgotten, parties with his court Meanwhile, a young farm girl, Joan, who since the age of fourteen has been blessed with visions as well as ....

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.... the king was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her by his side. As she was attempting to relieve Compienge, she was captured by the burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her.This was in May, 1430. After months of improsinment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to becaome archbishop. She was not familiar with the technicalities of theology, so Joan was trapped into making damaging statements. When she refused to retract the statement that it was the saints of god who commanded her to do what she did, ....