The scene changes. After the last interrogatory of Joan the priests proceed to Bishop Cauchon in order to inform him of the issue of their visit to the prisoner--a result that the prelate expects, so much so that he has convoked a sufficient number of judges to meet in the chapel of the Archbishop's palace at Rouen in order to proceed with the final sentence of the relapsed sinner. All the summoned prelates are assembled and in their seats in the chapel. Bishop Cauchon, seated in the center of the choir, presides, and orders silence with a gesture. BISHOP CAUCHON--"My very dear brothers, Joan has fallen back into her damnable errors, and in contempt of her solemn abjuration, pronounced in the face of God and His Holy Writ, not only has she resumed her male attire, but she again stubbornly maintains that all that she has done and said was said and done by divine inspiration! I now call for your views, in the order of precedence, upon the fate of the said Joan who is now charged with having relapsed, reserving to myself the right of convoking you again, should I deem it necessary." ARCHDEACON NICOLAS OF VENDERESSE--"The said Joan should be given over to the secular arm, to be burned alive as a relapsed sinner." ABBOT AGIDIE--"Joan is a relapsed heretic, no doubt about it. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that a second abjuration should be proposed to her, under pain of being delivered to the secular arm." CANON JOHN PINCHON--"Joan has relapsed; I shall adhere to whatever plan of punishment my very dear brothers may decide upon." CANON WILLIAM ERARD--"I pronounce the said Joan a relapsed sinner and deserving of the pyre." CHAPLAIN ROBERT GILBERT--"Joan should be burned as a relapsed sinner and heretic." ABBOT OF ST. AUDOIN--"The woman is a relapsed sinner. Let her abjure a second time or be condemned." ARCHDEACON JOHN OF CASTILLONE--"Let the relapsed sinner be delivered to the secular arm." CANON ERMANGARD--"I demand the exemplary death of Joan." DEACON BOUCHER--"Joan should be sentenced as a relapsed one." PRIOR OF LONGUEVILLE--"That is my opinion. She should be burned alive." FATHER GIFFARD--"I think the relapsed sinner should be sentenced without delay." FATHER HAITON--"I pronounce the said Joan a relapsed sinner. I am for her speedy punishment, provided, however, she refuses to abjure a second time." CANON MARGUERIE--"Joan is a relapsed sinner. Let her be delivered up to secular justice." CANON JOHN OF L'EPEE--"I am of my brother's opinion. She should be burned to death." CANON GARIN--"I think so, too." CANON GASTINEL--"Let us give up the relapsed sinner to the pyre." CANON PASCAL--"That is my opinion. Let her be burned to death." FATHER HOUDENC--"The ridiculous explanations of the woman are to me an ample proof that she has always been an idolatress and a heretic. Besides that, she is a relapsed sinner. I demand that she be delivered to the secular arm without delay."