What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
On 30 May 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, her charred remains burned further to reduce them to a state of ash, and her remains were thrown into the River Seine. It is said that 10,000 people witnessed her death.