Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc.
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Certainly Joan of Arc - in French: Jeanne d'Arc, burnt at the skate by the English.
Jan Hus was burnt at the stake for heresy.
To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire. Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.
St Joan of Arc
A Franglais saint and martyr. (In English she is referred to as "Joan of Arc", In French as Jeanne d'Arc). She inspired the French army at a time when England controlled much of France, and was eventually burnt at the stake. Check out a wikipedia article for more information.
yes well..actually she was burned at the stake in France by French Catholic clerics with the encouragement and support of the English for alleged heresy against the Catholic Church with the real reason being that she was SAVING France from the English. Funny huh..restored French sovereignity by driving out the English AND lived a life of such devotion to the Catholic faith that she was canonized by the Catholic Church as a beutific example of following the faith. and gets burned at the stake for allegedly being an enemy of the Catholic Church by FRENCH CATHOLICS
Joan of Arc
Jeanne d'Arc, or St. Joan of Arc, was the French peasant girl who helped defeat the English. She heard angels talking to her and won great victories for France under their direction. The English burned her as a witch.
This is because he had been translate the Bible into English, and he was stake and burnt in the city of Brussels. In addition, he died as a martyr.
a) she had outlived her usefulness b) she was the prisoner, not of the English, but of the Church.