However, in 1455, remorse came upon Charles VII.

and upon France.

Nearly all the provinces, all the towns, were freed from the foreigner, and shame was felt that nothing was said, nothing done, for the young girl who had saved everything.

At Rouen, especially, where the sacrifice was completed, a cry for reparation arose.

It was timidly demanded from the spiritual power which had sentenced and delivered over Joan as a heretic to the stake.