Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The 'Maid of Orleans,' who two years before had won a great victory over the English and seen the Dauphin crowned King of France, was publicly executed. Twenty-four years later, after the English had been driven out of France, Joan's sentence was revoked by the pope. An enduring symbol of French national courage, she was made a saint in 1920." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "Jeanne's execution was, on the surface, a victory for the English. It backfired. The sight of Jeanne dying with the name of Christ on her lips had not gone over well with the population of Rouen, and she was more and more widely spoken of as a martyr." [Bauer: Renaissance World, p. 668]