The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of ArcSue, Eugène
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The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc
Sue, Eugène
Biographical fiction; Christian fiction; Christian women saints -- Fiction; Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Fiction
MASTER JOHN OF NIBAT--"The said Joan is impenitent and a relapsed
sinner. Let her undergo her punishment."
FATHER FABRE--"A heretic by habit, hardened in her errors, a rebel to
the Church, the body of the said Joan should be delivered to the flames,
and her ashes cast to the winds."
ABBOT OF MONTEMART--"I hold as my brother. Only I am of the opinion that
she should be given a second chance to abjure."
FATHER GUELON--"That is my opinion."
CANON COUPEQUESNE--"Mine also."
CANON GUILLAUME--"Let the said Joan be offered a second chance to
retract. If she refuses, then death."
CANON MAURICE--"I favor such a second summons, although I do not expect
good results from it."
DOCTOR WILLIAM OF BANDIBOSC--"I side with my very dear brother."
DEACON NICOLAS CAVAL--"The relapsed sinner should be treated without
pity, according to her deserts. She should be burned to death."
CANON LOYSELEUR--"The said Joan should be delivered to the temporal
flames."
THOMAS OF COURCELLES--"The woman is a heretic and relapsed sinner. She
may be summoned a second time, and told that if she persists in her
errors, she has nothing to expect in this world."
FATHER JOHN LEDOUX--"Although such a second attempt seems to me idle, it
might be tried so as to demonstrate the inexhaustible kindness of our
mother the Church."
MASTER JOHN TIPHAINE--"I favor this second, though idle, attempt."
DEACON COLOMBELLE--"I am of the same opinion."
ISAMBARD OF LA PIERRE--"Secular justice will take its course if the said
Joan refuses to abjure a second time."
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