Maid In Orleans

Intro Unable to get her to admit being a heretic or committing any crime against God, she told the truth to her inquisitors, she had dressed as a man, to avoid detection by enemy forces as she moved around France. A crime apparently punishable by death in those days. She also wore them to try avoid being raped by her jailers after her death sentence was passed. saint jeanne d'arc a terrible fate to be burnt at the stake ~ boy she wore the trousers By David Kavanagh