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The Girl Bought for Ten Thousand Livres: Burned for France's Crown
A nineteen-year-old peasant girl handed to English captors prepares to be burned; what did she give everything for?The Girl Bought for Ten Thousand Livres: Burned for France's CrownIn this episode, we follow the life of Jehanne from Domrémy and the sequence of choices that carried her from a farming village to the heart of a collapsing France. We trace how a barely-literate girl came to meet the Dauphin, break the siege of Orléans, and face a trial that led to her being burned at nineteen - what does it mean to give everything for a cause, and who controls the story afterward?Person: Jehanne…
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