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What happened to St. Joan of Arc after the failed attack on Paris?

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Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing Joan of Arc in armor holding a banner at an altar during the coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, with figures praying behind her. — St. Joan of Arc *Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral*, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854; in the Louvre, Paris.

Following the failed attack on Paris in September 1429, St. Joan of Arc participated in several other military expeditions. In 1430, she traveled to Compiègne to bolster its defenses against Burgundian forces.1

On May 23, 1430, while leading a sortie to protect her rear guard, Joan was unhorsed and captured by the Burgundians. She was subsequently sold to the English, who sought to discredit Charles VII by associating his coronation with a heretic.12

Transferred to Rouen, she was tried before an ecclesiastical tribunal led by Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais. Although she initially signed a recantation, she later revoked it. Consequently, she was burned to death at the stake on May 30, 1431. It is a profound moral tragedy that she was abandoned by the king she helped crown, who made no attempt to secure her release.12