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The Cruel Trial Of Joan Of Arc

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Five months went by after the capture of Joan of Arc without any sign from the king or the French people of ransoming her. Consequently, the Duke of Burgundy sold Joan to the English, who quickly set to work gathering evidence and academics for her trial. The brute bishop Cauchon spent more than two months preparing this cruel trial, and went so far as to "overhear" Joan's confession. By this time her page and secretary - the Sieur Louis de Conte - had been working for the chief recorder of the trial for some time and by this way was present during all of Joan's trial. The trial starts very tediously with the court spending over three hours trying to force Joan into swearing an oath, but they end up letting Joan give the oath in her own manner
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