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- [Narrator] Once upon a time,

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there was a young maid who heard heavenly voices

and had the French king crowned in Reims.

Once upon a time, there was a brave shepherdess

who raised an army and saved France

from the English invader.

The story of Joan of Arc has crossed the globe since 1431,

the official date of her death at the stake.

(crowd shouting)

But did Joan really die that day?

Who then is that other Joan who some 10 years later

so perturbed King Charles?

Is Joan chosen by God or by a handful of men

who have turned a young girl into a prophetess?

And what if the story of the heroine had been rewritten

to serve political interests and victory in war?

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Nobody knows what she looked like

since no actual portrait of her exists,

and yet Joan of Arc is one of the most depicted

historical figures in the world.

For five centuries, she has inspired over 20,000 books

and as many theses, fantasies, and conflicting ideologies.

How does one find the truth from a sea of archives

that contains so many differing versions of her story?

Even during her lifetime accounts differ,

so which then should we believe?

The most important documentary records on Joan's life

are the minutes of her trial held in Rouen.

But 20 years after the proceedings,

Chief Notary Guillaume Manchon

contests the text he has written in his own hand.

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- Manchon will not be the only one

to cast doubt on the trial in Rouen.

Joan's neighbors, friends, comrades in arms,

certain judges, and even the torturer

would testify before Cardinal d'Estouteville

during the rehabilitation trial ordered by the king

20 years after the maid's death.

For six years, the Cardinal records the accounts

of a 114 witnesses who have encountered Joan.

d'Estouteville rereads every statement,

all of which glorify the Maid, to their authors.

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- Many witnesses emphasized that Joan is a shepherdess.

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- And yet at her trial in Rouen,

Joan states several times that she has never kept animals,

so who is telling the truth?

The legend of the shepherdess

spreads during Joan's lifetime.

(speaking in foreign language)

(sheep bleating)

- And one of the first propagators of this legend

is none other than Perceval de Boulainvilliers,

the chamberlain of the Dauphin Charles.

He describes Joan as a humble shepherdess

who works miracles.

- [Reader] As early has her seventh year,

her parents, as was the custom in the village,

sent her to tend to the sheep.

Not a single animal perished

or became the prey of ferocious beasts.

- [Narrator] De Bourgeois de Paris,

chronicler and English partisan,

doesn't believe a word of the propaganda

and disparages it in his journal.

(speaking in foreign language)

- So is Joan really a shepherdess?

The earliest writings are already contradictory,

and the story of the Maid would hold many more mysteries.

During the 100 Years War,

the French tear each other apart.

After the defeat at Agincourt,

Queen Isabeau signed the Treaty of Troyes in 1420,

by which the King of England would also rule France.

The country is divided into three parts,

the North and Aquitaine are occupied by the English

and their ally the Duchy of Burgundy,

while the Armagnacs in their fiefdoms

south of the Loire River put up resistance

alongside the Dauphin Charles.

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The kingdom of France is thus claimed

by two crownless sovereigns.

Which camp will God side with?

- One thing that is important throughout the whole

of the Hundred Years' War is the portrayal by both

the English and the French that God was on their side.

Generally speaking, the testimony that God

was on the side of one nation or the other

was whether they were winning or not.

(birds chirping)

- [Narrator] Joan begins hearing voices

shortly after the Treaty of Troyes.

Her village, Domrémy, on the border

between the two warring parties, isn't spared.

(speaking in foreign language)

The heavenly voice is described

by the Dauphin's chamberlain, Perceval de Boulainvilliers,

in a diplomatic letter to the Duke of Milan.

- [Reader] Suddenly, a glowing cloud appeared

before her eyes and from this cloud

came a voice which told her Joan,

you must take up a different life,

you must accomplish astounding things.

The King of Heaven has chosen you

to rally the kingdom of France

to aid and defend King Charles, ousted from his domain.

You must dress in a man's apparel,

take up arms, and become a leader in battle.

All will be done according to your counsel.

The voice fell silent and the cloud vanished.

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(speaking in foreign language)

(birds chirping)

- [Narrator] For 20 years, reporter Marcel Gay

has been trying to decipher the contradictions

in the story of Joan of Arc.

He works in the field using the methods

of investigative journalism.

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Religious fervor and mysticism

reign in this ravaged kingdom.

The great Gothic cathedrals have just been completed.

And long before Joan's birth,

prophecies announced the coming of a pucelle,

a young woman sent by God to save the kingdom of France.

(speaking in foreign language)

The account given by her uncle

illustrates that to convince those close to her,

even Joan cited the prophecies.

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And at the time, some people are already thinking

that the fulfillment of this prophecy

is a theatrical plot skillfully staged

by members of the French nobility.

25 years after Joan's death, even the Pope begins to wonder.

- [Reader] Was this divine intervention or human strategy?

It is difficult for me to confirm.

As the English prospered, the powers of France were divided,

unable to accept the conduct of one of their own.

Some believe that one of them, better advised,

thought up the device of producing a virgin

who was Heaven-sent, and being thus,

able to lay claim to the management of affairs.

For no man is alive who can refuse God as his leader.

- [Narrator] The enemy camp of Burgundy

is in no doubt that it is a ruse.

One romantic play of the time suggests that Joan

is trained at arms and manipulated by a captain

to simulate the divine mission of the little shepherdess.

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At the time of Joan, such a captain does exist.

He is Robert de Baudricourt,

the leader of the King of France's army in the region.

It was he Joan turned to first

in order to approach the Dauphin.

The Chronicles of Lorraine is a collection of ancient texts

compiled by the Dominican monk Dom Calmet.

They provide an astonishing version

of the meeting in Noncy between Joan,

Captain de Baudricourt, and the Duke of Lorraine.

- [Reader] When he came with the girl to Noncy,

Baudricourt introduced her to the Duke,

telling him how she wanted to go see King Charles

in order to restore him to the throne

and to chase the English from the kingdom.

My Lord, I vow I'm in great haste to go there.

What, said the duke?

But you can neither bare arms nor ride a horse.

The girl replied that once she had armor and a steed,

I will mount it and then we'll see if I can ride.

The Duke gave her armor, horse, and a sword.

And in the presence of all, without placing her foot

in the stirrup, she vaulted into the saddle.

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She was given a lance, she came

into the castle forecourt, and then she rode.

Never has a man at arms ridden better.

Every noble was astounded.

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- [Narrator] Such military skills require years of training.

But the majority of historians

say that Joan is only 16 when she convinces

Captain de Baudricourt to help her in her mission.

The age of the maid remains

one of the great mysteries of history.

(speaking in foreign language)

In fact, the only text to include this date

is that of Perceval de Boulainvilliers,

the chamberlain of the Dauphin Charles.

- [Reader] I think news has already reached

your ears of a young maid whom,

as we piously believe, was sent to us from Heaven.

She arrived to light our mortal coil

on the night of the Lord's epiphany.

(speaking in foreign language)

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- [Narrator] But one little known event

in her life may shed more light.

Joan was engaged to be married.

Her parents tried to force her into a marriage,

but having made a vow of chastity,

she rejected the young man who then took her to court.

(bell ringing)

In 1428, Joan appears and defends herself alone

before the officialite de Toul and wins.

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The only mention of this matrimonial trial

is a plaque opposite the cathedral.

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So Joan could have received years of training

to learn the art of war, but from whom?

Records from the rehabilitation trial

reveal that two officers under orders

from Captain de Baudricourt regularly visited Domremy.

(speaking in foreign language)

The Lorraine Archives hold an astonishing document,

the tenancy agreement signed

by Joan's father, Jacques d'Arc.

The agreement shows that Jacques

not only rented farmland from the local lord,

but also a fortress called the Chateau de I'Ile.

So is Jacques merely a lonely farmer?

(speaking in foreign language)

If Jacques d'Arc manages a fortress

in this threatened region, it must be under the authority

of the leader of the King's army, Captain de Baudricourt.

His officers oversee the transformation of Joan into a man.

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On the 23rd of February, 1429, during a fierce winter,

she leaves Vaucouleurs for Chinon.

de Baudricourt has provided her with an escort of six

horsemen including the royal messenger, Colet de Vienne.

They complete the 600 kilometer journey in 11 days.

Since the road crosses land belonging to the English

and Burgundian enemy, the travel at night.

Such a daring ride would have been a challenge

even for the most skilled horsemen.

(speaking in foreign language)

The room where Joan met the Dauphin still stands.

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After his meeting with Joan, Charles, often described

as taciturn and indecisive, is a changed man.

According to every witness, he is radiant.

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Joan is at ease and gives the impression

of being an equal among the highest ranked in court.

She's addressed as noble princess or noble lady,

terms that are not bandied about at that time.

(crowd cheering)

She never introduces herself as Joan of Arc

but always as Joan la pucelle.

This has led several unorthodox researchers to form

a hypothesis that Joan was of noble or of royal extraction.

She could have been a bastard child

sent to be raised in the country, but the proof is lacking.

Proof is also lacking to show who could have orchestrated

the mission of Joan the prophetess.

(speaking in foreign language)

Proof may be lacking, but one thing is certain.

Yolande d'Anjou has supervised

the most intimate and important of examinations,

that of Joan's virginity which ensures

she has dedicated her body to God.

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It is thus Yolande d'Anjou who legitimizes Joan as a virgin.

(speaking in foreign language)

At Poitiers, the examinations continue.

Joan is questioned over three weeks

by an assembly of theologians and doctors.

The King's secretary, Alain Chartier, is in attendance

and is impressed by her knowledge and wisdom.

- [Reader] The questions were manifold and reiterative.

They covered the greatest mysteries, both divine and human.

Her answers were so just and so beautiful

that one would never have said she was raised in the fields

with sheep, but in the most learned of schools.

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(speaking in foreign language)

So, opinion differs regarding Joan's level of knowledge.

But the statement made by the Dauphin's cousin,

the Duke of Alencon, reveals that she may not

have been telling the whole truth.

(speaking in foreign language)

The Duke of Alencon's statement

also highlights the maid's military knowledge.

At Chinon, Joan gives further demonstration

of her talents as a horsewoman.

(speaking in foreign language)

Joan's personality fascinates

the warlords of the Armagnac camp.

Among them, Gilles de Rais, who would go down

in history under the name of Bluebeard.

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(speaking in foreign language)

Despite the number of accounts that surrounded Joan

with pageboys, heralds, and squires,

her military role remains unclear.

(speaking in foreign language)

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Her courage and charisma would surprise many,

and as the heavenly voices had announced,

Joan ousts the English from Orleans in barely a week.

But the working of this miracle was made easier

by the fact that the English are locked

in a serious dispute with their Burgundian allies.

(speaking in foreign language)

- The Duke of Bedford wrote that it had been,

or two things, that the siege of Orleans had been a mistake,

he said taken up God knows whose advice

and who on Earth had suggested we should besiege Orleans,

and then he went on to comment on the bad effect

of Joan in making people sort of afraid, if you like,

and making it likely that the English would be defeated.

In other words, he's saying it was fear

of Joan that caused the difficulty.

At this point, the English are not winning

so it could be argued that God is not on their side.

Given the population as a whole, they would believe this

as a rather superstitious thing, that defeat meant

that God had turned his face against the English.

- [Narrator] The English may have been terrified

of the demon Joan, but for the Armagnacs,

she is a gift from Heaven.

And soon after the victory at Orleans,

epic poems begin to spread her legend.

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- [Man] As demanded by her mission set from on high,

she bore a man's heart and clothes.

It wasn't men who trained her in war, but God.

She was sent by Heaven to confound,

oh England, your relentless insolence.

Such sudden disaster filled with terror

those guarding other forts.

Not awaiting another assault, they shamelessly fled,

abandoning all their positions to Joan the victorious,

strong with Heaven's support.

- [Narrator] On the other hand, la Burgeois de Paris,

a partisan of the Burgundian enemy,

is merciless in his chronicle about the maid.

(speaking in foreign language)

Thanks to the rehabilitation trial

led by Cardinal d'Estouteville,

the accounts he collected provide insight

into Joan's private life during the military campaign.

(speaking in foreign language)

It seemed as if nothing could halt Joan's advance.

Under her banner, the Armagnacs

take Beaugency, Meung, and city of sur-Loire.

At Patay, they defeat the English army

before Gien, Auxerre, and Troyes fall in turn.

Urged forward by Joan, the army claims back

what the English had taken years to capture.

Reims falls on the 16th of July, 1429.

The very next day, so as not to linger

on threatened territory, Joan has Charles VII

crowned in the cathedral.

Anointed with the holy oil of Clovis,

Charles is recognized by all as the rightful

King of France, designated by God.

- Reims had been the crowning place of the kings

of France for a very long time.

The belief that the oil of Clovis,

the oil that had been used not just for the coronation

of Clovis, but for the baptism for the making Christian

of Clovis, that was housed in Reims and it was necessary

to anoint a legitimate king of France with that oil.

Remember that the English were claiming to be

legitimate kings of France, as well as King of England.

- [Narrator] The crowning of Charles VII

is a triumph for Joan and her divine voices.

She has fulfilled the second prophecy.

She has turned the tide in a war

that has lasted almost 100 years.

But the King feels it is a time

for pragmatism and opens truce negotiations

with Burgundy, which Joan denounces.

She prepares to besiege Paris.

(speaking in foreign language)

On the eighth of September, 1429,

Joan for the first time meets with failure.

She is wounded and her glory is tarnished.

Charles dissolves the army.

Perhaps to console her, he ennobles Joan and her family,

giving her the name of Joan Du Lys.

But although deprived of most of her comrades in arms,

she continues the fight alone.

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- She doesn't win any victories when she is by herself.

She is also wounded on one or two occasions,

perhaps more wounds than we might have expected.

The wounds, though, are at a distance always,

I think they're by arrows, so I really wonder

whether Joan was a warrior in the sense we would understand

it for all of the other people present there,

or whether she is very much a figurehead

and really quite vulnerable.

We know that Charles put a very big bodyguard around her,

so I think we really need to revise

the way we see Joan as a warrior.

- [Narrator] Her epic advance is finally halted

at Compiegne in the spring of 1430.

Joan is thrown from her horse and is taken prisoner.

She is sold for 200 pounds to John of Luxembourg,

an ally of the English and Burgundians.

Jean Germain, the Bishop of Nevers

tells how Joan was humiliated before the Duke of Burgundy.

(speaking in foreign language)

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For eight months, John of Luxembourg

moves his prisoner from castle to castle.

Finally, he sells Joan to the English

for the sum of 10,000 pounds.

That year, the records of the English Crown

mention Joan la Pucelle, they tell of how

the Duke of Bedford, the English Regent

of the Kingdom of France, sent a considerable escort

to take her to Rouen where the very young

King of England, Henry VI, is waiting.

- [Man] 24 pounds to be paid to Richard Hidlow

and 47 servants and pages of various parts

of the royal household will leave Rouen for Picardy

with Richard Browser, royal collector

on the order of the King's counsel.

For escorting Joan, called pucelle, to Rouen,

each man will be paid the sum of 10 shillings.

- The young king was kept in Rouen

during the time of Joan of Arc,

I think that this is deliberate.

Joan herself was quite young,

the King is eight moving onto nine.

In this period, there was a great reverence for children.

They were seen as blameless and innocent,

and therefore I think it was very important

for the King, who no doubt was a very pious child,

it was important for that juxtaposition to take place,

the evil woman who was misleading the people

and the King who was the innocent youth

representing the God-given authority of kingship.

And I think that that was done deliberately.

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- [Narrator] Before 95 French theologians,

Bishop Pierre Cauchon opens Joan's trial

for heresy and witchcraft.

The judges charge the maid with dressing

as a man and practicing idolatry, which gives

la Bourgeois de Paris the perfect opportunity

to show his indignation of the accused.

(speaking in foreign language)

As masters of the game, the English appoint Frenchmen

to lead the trial but verify Joan's virginity themselves.

(speaking in foreign language)

She is still a virgin.

The English are unable to try her as a witch,

but they need to prove that Joan isn't sent by God

in order to contest the divine right

of Charles VII to the French Crown.

The judges will thus accuse her of idolatry,

challenging the heavenly nature of her voices.

(speaking in foreign language)

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Inside the prison walls,

the voices continued to back Joan.

Outside too, she isn't completely abandoned.

Gilles de Rais keeps up the harassment of the English.

(speaking in foreign language)

The trial has dragged on for five months.

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Bishop Cauchon forces Joan to sign

an act of abjuration of her errors.

She submits to the church and promises

never to dress as a man again on pain of death.

And while she remains in English hands,

she is at the mercy of her jailers.

(speaking in foreign language)

It is an outrage, Joan dressed once more

as a man despite her abjuration.

Bishop Cauchon declares her a relapsed heretic

and makes his decision.

Two days later, on the 30th of May,

Joan will be excommunicated and burnt alive at the stake.

(speaking in foreign language)

800 men, why such an army?

To keep the people at bay.

Perceval de Cagny, secretary to the Duke of Alencon,

has informers on the spot.

His chronicle reveals a strange detail.

- [Reader] La pucelle was led, her face covered,

from the castle to the place where the fire was built.

Certain things were read at the said place,

and then she was tied to the stake and burnt.

- [Narrator] But what was her face covered with?

In the chronicle written by the clerk of the Parliament

of Paris, Joan's head was covered with a miter.

- [Man] On the miter, which she wore on her head,

were written the following words:

heretic, relapse, apostate, idolatry.

- [Narrator] Another anomaly from the records

of the rehabilitation trial, the executioner complains

of not being able to reduce Joan's suffering

as the stake is raised too high from the scaffold.

(speaking in foreign language)

La Bourgeois de Paris delights

in finally being able to announce the death of his enemy.

(speaking in foreign language)

20 years later, once the civil war is over,

several of the judges who condemned Joan of Arc

as a heretic would speak in her favor

during the rehabilitation trial.

But was it not a case of exaggerating

in order to make up now for their previous collaboration?

(speaking in foreign language)

Joan's heroic end would become the stuff of legend.

And yet, in this year of 1431, not one English chronicle

mentions the execution of Joan the maid.

What could explain such silence from her victors?

Other questions remain unanswered.

Why 800 men at arms to keep back the crowd?

Why was Joan's face covered?

Why was the stake so high that she was unreachable?

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At the time, some refused to believe that Joan is dead.

And five years later, with peace between the houses

of Armagnac and Burgundy still young,

an astonishing rumor begins to spread, Joan is back.

(speaking in foreign language)

Near the city of Metz, a young woman claims to be Joan,

having escaped the stake in Rouen.

Numerous historical documents

at the French National Library attest to this appearance.

The first known account is by the Dean of St. Thibaut,

an ecclesiastical judge in Metz.

Here is the story of the woman

who historians have dubbed the false Joan.

(speaking in foreign language)

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At that time, the chronicle of the Dean

of St. Thibaut place her in Cologne.

Her presence is confirmed by Johannes Nider,

the prior of the Dominicans in Basel,

a member of the Inquisition and an expert in witchcraft.

His treaty on religious discipline, the Formicarium,

paints the portrait of a scandalous woman.

(speaking in foreign language)

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The Inquisitor of Cologne summons this woman

whose behavior he deems inadmissible.

(speaking in foreign language)

Excommunicated, the mysterious woman

seeks refuge at the Chateau d'Arlon

and soon marries a French knight,

Robert des Armoises, a widower with two children.

(speaking in foreign language)

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True Joan or false Joan,

the reappearance sends shockwaves throughout France.

In a note to to his register in Arlon

is the trace of an act between two comrades.

One bets that it is the real Joan,

the other refuses to believe it.

The mystery even reaches neighboring lands.

And that same year, 1436, the King of Spain

receives a letter asking for military aid

from a certain pucelle de France

who is fighting the English in La Rochelle.

- [Man] At court, the constable showed

the signature to the nobles of Spain

as though it were the holiest of relics.

For, since he was bold-hearted, he loved those who were too.

And for this reason, he was interested

in the feats of the maid.

And because of this, the constable decided,

with the King's endorsement, to send to the maid

a fleet such that could come to the aid

of her and the King of France.

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- [Narrator] Three years later,

Joan des Armoises turns up in Orleans.

City records show she received a very warm welcome.

- [Reader] On the 18th day of July,

for 10 pints wine in bottles presented to the lady

Joan des Armoises, a cost of 14 farthings.

To the same on the 29th day of July

for 10 pints of wine in bottles

presented to Madam Joan, a cost of 14 farthings.

(speaking in foreign language)

Eight pints of wine served at a dinner

and which were present Jean Quillier and Thevanon of Bourges

held to introduce the latter to the said Joan,

who left before the said wine arrived.

(speaking in foreign language)

To Joan des Armoises, as a gift to her

on this first day of August.

By the deliberation of the city council in thanks

for the good she did to said city during the siege.

(speaking in foreign language)

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- [Narrator] And risk soon turns to real danger.

In 1440, Joan des Armoises is arrested

as a usurper and taken to the Palace of Justice

in Paris where the Parliament sits.

(speaking in foreign language)

Joan des Armoises is released

and decides to keep a low profile.

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(speaking in foreign language)

In 1441, a Royal edict gave Jean de Siquenville

the task of replacing at the harbormaster's office

in Le Mans a certain Joan who called herself pucelle.

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- [Reader] Charles, King of France,

by the grace of God let it be known to all present

and absent that we have received a humble entreaty

from Jean de Siquenville, Squire of Gascony.

Said entreaty claims that for two years,

Gilles de Rais, our adviser and Marshal of France,

under whom the author of entreaty was,

told the latter to go to Le Mans.

There he should take charge of the men at arms

in order to replace a said Joan who calls herself pucelle.

And that if he went to Le Mans,

he would be appointed Captain.

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- [Narrator] The same year, King Charles VII

is reported to have met the false pucelle.

The chronicle of Pierre Sala

would tell the story much later

having heard it from the King's chamberlain.

- [Reader] The said lord told me that 10 years after

a false pucelle was brought before the King.

Some intended, by spreading rumors,

that it was the first Joan resuscitated.

The King, on hearing this news,

ordered that she be brought before him.

She came right before the King, who first astounded

and speechless, greeted her gently

saying my dear pucelle, welcome back in the name of God,

who knows the secret that lies between you and me.

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(speaking in foreign language)

Then, miraculously, having heard this word,

the so-called pucelle knelt before the King

and there confessed her betrayal.

At which those who had upheld it were severely punished,

as is fitting in such a case.

- [Narrator] Did she confess that she was an impostor?

Who were those held responsible

by the King and punished so severely?

No document exists that can tell us.

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However, we do know that Joan des Armoises

returned to Lorraine and rejoined her husband in Metz.

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(speaking in foreign language)

(birds chirping)

In the village of Jaulny near Metz

is a similar portrait of Joan des Armoises.

It was in the grounds of this chateau that she came to hunt.

(speaking in foreign language)

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But where is the tomb of Joan des Armoises?

(bell chiming)

The region's old folks say her remains

lie buried a few miles away under the choir

of the church in Pulligny-sur-Madon,

as a plaque once indicated.

(speaking in foreign language)

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1449, the very same year that Joan of Arc's mother

and two brothers implored King Charles VII

to rehabilitate the fallen heroine.

The King orders the rehabilitation trial

that would last six years.

One after the other, witness accounts

would paint the picture of a saint.

- What's interesting about the rehabilitation trial

is how suddenly people said the same kind of thing,

as though their evidence had been constructed for them.

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- [Narrator] But the judge would have five centuries

of doubt regarding the woman he'd had condemned.

In the 19th century, Germany and France

fight over Alsace-Lorraine, one of the biggest

steel-producing regions of Europe.

It is at this time that the French Church

asks the Vatican to canonize Joan of Arc,

heroine of Lorraine, whose acts of bravery

had enabled France to free itself from its invaders.

Since Joan had been excommunicated and burnt at the stake

after an ecclesiastical trial,

it was difficult for the Church to consider her a martyr.

But in 1891, Sister Jean Marie Sagnier

is suddenly cured of ulcers and abscesses

on her legs after repeated prayer to Joan.

In 1902, Marie Antoinette Mirandol is suddenly cured

from a perforating verruca after praying to Joan.

In 1909, Joan becomes the blessed Joan.

But to become a saint, one has to have worked

two miracles recognized by the Church.

The canonization proceedings show that France

presented other people who were miraculously cured.

The Bishop of Orleans goes to the Notre Dame

de douleur hospital to recommend that patients

seek cures by the hand of Joan of Arc

because he needs miracles so as to obtain

the canonization of the blessed one.

The Vatican finally accepts two miracles,

the healing of a perforating verruca and a heart murmur.

And in 1920, Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.

But whether she is a saint sent by God

or a virgin manipulated by men,

burnt alive or escaped from the stake,

true Joan or false Joan,

the light reveals darkness and the truth, mystery.

(suspenseful music)