Secondly , Rouen – the site of the trial – was also still held by the English . The documents relating to the original trial were kept in Rouen , and the town did not fall into Charles VII 's hands until November 1449 . Historian Régine Pernoud makes the point that " So long as the English were masters of Rouen , the mere fact that they held the papers in the case , a case which they had managed themselves , maintained their version of what the trial had been " . She adds : " to reproach the King or the Church with having done nothing until that time is tantamount to reproaching the French government with having done nothing to bring the Oradour war criminals to justice before 1945 "
Oradour
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
Retrial of Joan of Arc