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A Teenage Girl Saves France

HISTORY This Week

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Joan of Arc and the English

It wasn't normal to negotiate for the release of regular soldiers. Joan has been of the utmost military importance to the French army. The English want to install their own king in France. So they need to take down the Dauphin. And now, they have before them this girl who has been telling everyone that God is on the Dauophin's side. They charge her with heresy and say she killed people. That's a sin. This is a show trial.

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