Listen "The Flame and the Fleur-de-lis"
Episode Synopsis
On this edition of Dave Does History, we revisit one of the most haunting and heroic moments of the medieval world: the execution of Joan of Arc on May 30, 1431. She was just nineteen years old, a peasant girl who claimed to hear the voices of saints and turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War. She led armies, crowned a king, and frightened the powerful. Then, betrayed by allies and condemned by enemies, she was burned alive in the marketplace of Rouen. But this is not just a tale of tragedy. It is a story of faith, fire, and the iron will of a girl who dared to believe she had been chosen by God to save her country. Today, we pull apart the politics, the war, the trial, and the pyre to understand why her voice could not be silenced and why her flame still burns in history.
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