On may 30, 1431, Joan of Arc is taken from his cell by the executioner to be burnt alive on the place du Vieux-Marché of Rouen. Along the way, she cries and laments. She claims a cross as a peasant to build with two small pieces of wood. The executioner attaches to a pole planted in the middle of the bundles.
She moaned, repeatedly : “Jesus, Jesus “, moving the crowd that attends the torment. A heavy acrid smoke surrounds the young woman and then the cache. Without doubt dies-she asphyxiated. The English ask the executioner to push the bundle so that everyone could…
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