L'alouette

L'Alouette, a play written by French playwright Jean Anouilh in the 1950s, tells the story of Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) as a play-within-a-play. During her trial for heresy, there are flashbacks in which Jeanne replays key scenes of her life and mission to save France from the "godons" (goddamned English) during the Hundred Years War. One of the keys to the authenticity of Anouilh's voice is that he used the original transcripts of her trial in the 1400s to get it right.