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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy

On May 30, 1431, at Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy.

ENTRY OF JOAN OF ARC INTO ORLEANS 1429 FRENCH SAINT WOMAN MILITARY LEADER HEROINE CATHOLIC MAID OF ORLEANS JEANNE DARC (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

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