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Joan of Arc Posthumously Acquitted in 1431

In 1431, during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who inspired the French against English invaders, was tried in Rouen. Captured by the enemy, she was condemned as a heretic by an English-organized Inquisition trial and burned at the stake, later being posthumously acquitted.

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