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Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Norman dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, with Elaine Malbin as Joan...
...studied the light on the church at Old Lyme as assiduously as Monet had studied the rosier light on Rouen cathedral, yet no one would compare the invariably pleasant Hassam with trail-blazing Monet. Where Monet had created new problems to solve, Hassam skillfully ducked old ones. For example, the clock faces in his Church could not have been painted in sharp focus without violating his soft focus view of the building, nor could they have been done in soft focus without frustrating man's natural urge to read clocks-so he simply hid them in leaves...
Tall and black as Rouen steeple...
...knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic heresy trials of Christian history. That trial, held in Rouen (Feb. 21-May 31, 1431) under Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, is now a familiar story. Far less familiar is a second trial that, 19 years later, resurrected the ashes of the burnt heretic and transformed her into a heroine...
...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 rather than an ecclesiastical prison, her lack of counsel, her inability to get an appeal through to Pope Eugene IV. The Rouen trial was full of inconsistencies and irregularities, e.g., after Joan made her famous "abjuration" renouncing her "errors," she was sentenced to life imprisonment, and what actually brought her to the stake was her return to men's clothes after she had promised to give them up. Though condemned...