Joan of Arc examined by the Bishop of Winchester Mint plant The Mayor of Jerusalem meets

The Mayor of Jerusalem meets British troops under a flag of truce to negotiate the surrender

A German cemetery in France

the new Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer

11th June 1946

Joan of Arc examined by the Bishop of Winchester Mint plant The Mayor of Jerusalem meetsJoan of Arc examined by the Bishop of Winchester, 1431. Claiming divine inspiration, Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself King of France (at the time France was ruled by England under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes signed in 1420). Joan was captured by the English, tried as a heretic and executed and martyred in 1431, but Charles went on to regain all of France from the English, with the exception of Calais.