AHC: Rescue Joan of Arc

IOTL, the English executed Joan of Arc in May 1431. The French did not lift a finger to save her(even though their king, Charles VII, owed his very throne to her). The challenge here is two-
fold:

1- Find someone- ANYONE- who you think would actually have wanted to save Joan; and-
2- Then figure out how they could have plucked Joan out of her prison @ Rouen & spirited her
away to safety
 
France did try. The problem was that Joan was an enemy that had caused major problems for the English, there were genuine religious reasons a lot of people will outright question anyone claiming they have divine inspiration, and Joan was not a noble so there was not as much political pressure to treat her well as say when the English captured the French king.

One option that popped into my head is papal interference. Joan's trial wasn't quite one sided. Maybe a papal legate is sent, and demands the case be brought before the Pope. Joan had also at several points called for the English to cooperate with the French in a crusade against either the Hussites or the Ottomans. The Pope could try to make use of her in these areas, while still removing her from the English-French conflict.
 
It seems that some of her most loyal firend were near Rouen during the trial (la hire, Gilles de Rais, ...) they received funding from the king and some operation hapened in the same time near of Rouen (like the battle of shepherd? --> bataille du berger) just after the death of Joan of Arc.

It looks like there was an undercover rescue attempt but this rescue failed, so you could let this rescue succeded.
 
To be fair, the English refused many ransom for her and she was captive in what was pretty much the English headquarter in France (Rouen)
The king DID try many attack in order to free her but they were repelled and even treathen to kill Burgundian men and woman (aka. civillian in conquered city) if they killed Joan in an attempt to force the English to spare her.
 
Undoubtly Undead once Joan fell into the clutches of the English Charles would have had to give them all
his French possessions, plus the Sun & the Moon to get her back. But remember, Joan was initially cap-
tured not by the English but by the Burgundians, who then sat back & awaited bids on their prize captive
from both the English & the French. The former of course put up $- the latter never did. Granted, the
Burgundians were asking for much- but not as much as the English later would have. As one of Joan's
biographers has pointed out, Charles had resources- such as French towns- he could have pawned to
get the $. Or he could have exchanged Joan for, say, Talbot &/or other English lords & captains he now held as prisoner.*. But this Charles did not do, thereby abandoning Joan to her fate. Talk about gratit-
ude.

As for attacks by the French to free Joan, or undercover rescue attempts, in my reading I've discovered
little about them, & what I have found does not treat them as very big affairs.(In fact I've yet to find one authority that states any covert action was EVER undertaken to free Joan). I thus conclude- & may-
be I'm wrong here- that any attacks the French mounted were small, half-ass affairs that never had the
slightest chance of success. I doubt that they caused the English to lose any sleep!

P.S. If, everybody, you're getting the impression I don't much like Charles VII all I can say is- guilty as
charged. I know he later matured & grew into the job of King but as for his treatment of Joan- well, the
less said the better.

*- See Vita Sackville-West, SAINT JOAN OF ARC, p. 252 of the 1984, paperback edition.
 
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