Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
and tortured if refusing certain answers, 117, 119, 257, 300, 339;
intrepid reply, 126;
twelve articles of charge, approved by Paris University, considered
and endorsed by judges, 119–121, 185;
charged with frustrating peace, 348;
denies this in case of Burgundy, but would oppose English till out of
France, 349;
her self-defence, xx-xxi;
publicly exposed and preached to, 127, 172, 173;
bishop pronounces sentence, 129;
interrupted by recantation of Jeanne, 130–132, 208;
will submit to the Church, 173, 176, 186;
condemned to perpetual imprisonment, 133;
insulted by soldiers, 211;
in a lay prison, xviii;
asks to be taken to an ecclesiastical prison, 169, 173;
adopts feminine attire, 134, 173, 186, 189, 204, 207;
again in male attire, 135, 174, 177, 179, 193;
her explanation, 136, 159, 163, 177;
abjures her recantation, 137–8;
adjudication of judges, 138–140;
to receive sentence in old market, Rouen, 141;
takes the Sacrament, 151, 160, 175, 180, 187, 193, 207;
sentence of death, xxi, 142–5;
of excommunication, brought to the old market place, 142,163, 191,
256, 305;
preached to, 191;
forced from platform to stake without sentence of secular judges,
161, 163, 194, 300, 301;
English soldiers around her, 170, 175;
asked pardon of the English and Burgundians, 154;
lays her fate upon Bishop of Beauvais, 158–9, 195;
horror on learning proposed mode of death, 158;
her execution, xxi;
devout demeanour at the stake, 161, 164, 170, 175, 199;
when in the flames begged the Cross to be held before her, 161, 175,
195;
Jesus her dying utterance, 161, 176, 273, 301, 305;
pity excited by her execution, 191, 192, 255;
contrition of her executioner, 161, 163, 194;
exact place of execution, 170, 175;
death desired by the English, 186;
her ashes cast into the Seine, 193, 207, 301, 302, 305;
her appearance in June, 1429, 30;
no authentic portrait known, 49;
her abstemious diet, 237, 243, 296;
prison diet, 15, 16;
pious and simple life, xiii;
physical hardihood, xiii;
her presence controlled vice and raised tone of French army,
xii-xiii, 243, 245, 249, 250, 251, 264, 268, 270;
hospitable to poor, 221, 224, 272;
problem as to her knowledge of logic and theology, xix;
testimony to virtue and courage, xxvi, 319;
eloquent and forensic, yet prudent and simple in answers, xxvii, 177,
179;
Charles VII. orders posthumous enquiry nearly twenty years later, v,
xxi, 371;
abortive, 372;
enquiry ordered by Pope Nicholas V., xxii, 372;
no definite result, 373;
Pope Calixtus, on petition of Jeanne’s mother, Isabella, causes
solemn enquiry at Paris, xxii, 373–376;
sworn information of events in the last days of Jeanne’s life, 147–8,
150;
official Latin text of trial and rehabilitation, xxv;
sentence of rehabilitation xxiii, 321–328, 376
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