Word: pernoud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their associates were themselves, in effect, the accused-though many of them were dead by then " -that made possible her sure but slow acceptance as a Roman Catholic saint (she was finally canonized in 1920). The rehabilitation trial is now again brought to light by Régine Pernoud, chief archivist of the Museum of French History (The Retrial of Joan of Arc; Harcourt, Brace; $4.75). The record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment in a secular...