Evolution of Love 2

"The Witch is back and there's hell to pay."

Joan of Arc and Rouen :

Rouen a vibrant port city on the banks of the river Seine is the capital of the northern region of Normandy .
Rouen, has a pretty intense checkered history since the medieval times .. the gothic church and Roman ruins bear witnesses to those times .
It was here in the Rouen cathedral the entombed heart of Richard the Lion Heart finds its final resting place ….
What intrigued me to visit Rouen was my impression of Joan of Arc ! I think , I was in school when I read about her , her courage her fortitude …
Joan who claimed to get divine visions led the French army to gain a momentous victory against the English in the Hundred year war . She was falsely accused on 70 counts on heresy , witchcraft , wearing men’s clothes and mercilessly dragged in the middle of the market square where she was burnt at the stake in front of a screaming mob ! Where her body rose into flames , 600 years later .. stands a cathedral in her honor a tall cross almost reaching the sky …
the market stands still today where one can get the freshest of produce , cheese , fish , flowers .. you name it !
My appetite was quite dull as I thought back on the horror of the day when a young girl of only 19 , was so brutally put to her end . Not even the beauty of the Rouen cathedral could lift my senses … as we well know how even in present time the balance between justice and injustice still hangs dry !


The Witch is back and there's hell to pay." Is so very appropriate here..