Uncover the secrets behind Joan of Arc’s rise - and the betrayals that sealed her fate - in "The Maid who saved France" episode. Join us as we follow how a teenage visionary helped lift the siege of Orléans, pressed a cautious court toward the coronation of Charles VII, and then became too politically dangerous to protect once her usefulness faded.​

In this episode, betrayal isn’t just personal - it’s contractual and legal. We trace broken truces and shifting alliances, then follow Joan from capture at Compiègne to being transferred into English hands, where her enemies pursued a courtroom victory they couldn’t secure on the battlefield. Inside the trial at Rouen, we examine how procedure itself can become a weapon: custody and confinement issues, pressure to submit, and the trap of “relapse” that turned a coerced  ...