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Jules Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc, 1879, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jules Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc, 1879, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCC0 · source

Joan of Arc's trial reversed

Joan of Arc was burned alive for heresy. Twenty-five years later, the Church basically admitted the trial was wrong.

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  1. Joan of Arc was burned alive for heresy.
  2. HER ENEMIES NEEDED TO DISCREDIT HER
  3. SO THEY PUT HER ON TRIAL
  4. SHE WAS CONDEMNED
  5. THEN HER SIDE WON
  6. HER CASE WAS REOPENED
  7. THEN SHE BECAME A SAINT
  8. WHY THE REVERSAL MATTERS MORE THAN THE TRIAL

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