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By Liam Rudden JOAN OF ARC was burned at the stake in 1431. She was just 19. In 1920, she was made a saint, the patroness of soldiers and of France, and three years later immortalised by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his play, Saint Joan.

By VINCENT MOSS,; IAN SPARKS in Paris FRANCE goes to the polls today with glamorous left-winger Segolene Royal hoping to become France's first female president. The last opinion polls before the voting booths open showed her closing the gap to within one point of her rival Nicolas Sarkozy.

A rib bone supposedly found at the site where French heroine Joan of Arc was burned at the stake is actually that of an Egyptian mummy, according to researchers who used high-tech science to expose the fake.