The trial of Joan of Arc, was overseen by an English-backed church court at Rouen, Normandy in the first half of 1431 and culminated in the execution of the young French peasant girl who was the defendant in the case. The trial verdict was later reversed on appeal by Jean Bréhal, the Inquisitor-General in 1456, thereby exonerating her. Considered a French national heroine, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.

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