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.
In presence of the above, have been reported sundry assertions gathered
and considered in the matter, in a notable and scientific manner, by
many Doctors and Masters. In view of these assertions, after having the
opinions conferred thereon at length with each of the Assessors, We, the
Judges, did conclude and give order that the assertions thus extracted
from the register of the declarations of Jeanne shall be drawn up in a
very small number of Articles under the form of propositions; that the
Articles thus prepared shall be communicated at once to all and each of
the Doctors and Masters, who can thus the more easily pronounce their
opinion.
On the question of whether Jeanne ought to be again interrogated and
examined later on, We will proceed in such sort, with the help of Our
Lord, that Our case may be conducted to the praise of God and the
exaltation of the Faith, being affected by no blemish.
_The questions are read to Jeanne in prison._
_On the following Saturday, March 24th, in the prison of Jeanne; Maître
Jean Delafontaine, Commissioner for Us, the Bishop, and Brother Jean
Lemaître; assisted by J. Beaupère, N. Midi, P. Maurice, G. Feuillet,
Thomas de Courcelles, Enguerrand de Champrond._
In presence of the above-named, We caused to be read to Jeanne the
Register which contained the questions made to her and her answers. This
reading was made in the presence of the said Jeanne by G. Manchon,
Registrar, and in the French language.
But before proceeding to this reading, Our Promoter, Messire d’Estivet,
offered to prove, in case Jeanne should not recognize some of her
answers, that all the contents of the said Register, questions and
answers, had been pronounced as they were there written. And on her
side, Jeanne made oath that, during the reading, which was about to be
made, she would add or change nothing in her answers that was not the
truth.
The Register was then read. In one place during the reading, Jeanne
said:
“I have as surname d’Arc or Rommée: in my country the girls take the
name of their mother.”
Further on, she said:
“Let the questions and answers, all that has to be read, be read without
stopping: if I do not contradict at all, I hold it true and
acknowledged.”
On the subject of the passage relative to her dress, she said in
addition:
“Give me a woman’s dress to go and rejoin my mother; I will take it that
I may get out of prison, because when I am outside I will consider as to
what I should do.”
The reading of the contents of the said Register being finished, she
said:
“I believe certainly to have so spoken as it is written in the Register,
and as has been read; I do not contradict on any point.”
_Exhortation to Jeanne._
_Palm Sunday, 25th day of March, in the morning, in the prison of
Jeanne, in the Castle of Rouen, We, the Bishop, did make an address to
Jeanne, in the presence of the venerable Lords and Masters, J. Beaupère,
N. Midi, P. Maurice, Thomas de Courcelles._
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