Joan of Arc - Burned Alive at 19. Her Trial Transcript Survives.

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[00:00:00]In 1431, a 19-year-old girl was burned alive for heresy. [music] The trial transcript survives.

[00:00:08]A peasant from a tiny village called Domremy, could not read, could not write, changed the entire war.

[00:00:16]At 13, she heard voices in her father's garden, saints telling her to save France.

[00:00:22]She was 13.

[00:00:24]France was losing the Hundred Years' War.

[00:00:27]The English held half the country.

[00:00:29]The king was not crowned.

[00:00:32]At 17, she told the future king God sent her.

[00:00:36]He believed her, gave her an army.

[00:00:40]A 17-year-old in armor rode to the front.

[00:00:44]The French army had been losing for decades.

[00:00:47]The Siege of Orléans, the English surrounded the city for months. She lifted it in 9 days.

[00:00:54]17.

[00:00:56]Wounded by an arrow at Orléans, she pulled it out herself, went back to fight the same day.

[00:01:03]Reims Cathedral, July 1429.

[00:01:07]Charles crowned King of France. She stood beside him holding her banner.

[00:01:12]She had done everything the voices told her.

[00:01:15]Crowned the king, saved Orléans.

[00:01:18]Then her luck ran out. Captured at Compiègne, May 1430, the Burgundians sold her to the English.

[00:01:26]The king did nothing.

[00:01:28]They tried her for heresy in Rouen, an English-controlled court. The outcome was decided before it began.

[00:01:36]The trial transcript survives. Every question, every answer. Her answers are the most remarkable part of this story.

[00:01:44]Asked if she was in God's grace, she said, "If not, may God place me there."

[00:01:51]19 years old, facing dozens of trained theologians, could not read. She outwitted them with almost every answer.

[00:02:00]Guilty, heresy, wearing men's clothing, claiming to hear God's voice, sentenced to burn. She was 19. 30th of May, 1431.

[00:02:10]The market square of Rouen. Tied to a stake, 19 years old.

[00:02:16]Her last word was Jesus. She said it three times.

[00:02:20]Some of her judges wept.

[00:02:22]She was 19.

[00:02:24]25 years later, the church retried the case. Declared innocent.

[00:02:29]In 1920, she was made a saint.

[00:02:32]A farm girl who could not read outwitted the most powerful court in Europe.

[00:02:37]They killed her anyway.

[00:02:40]Burned alive at 19, made a saint five centuries later. A farm girl who changed a war and terrified an empire. England, America, Europe, every hero still alive in the hearts of nations.

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