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Updated: June 10, 2025
When Beaupère asked her if it was her own idea to come into France, Joan replied in the affirmative, and also that she would sooner have been torn to pieces by horses than have come without the will of God. 'Does He, asked the priest, 'tell you not to wear the man's dress? and had not Baudricourt, he added, 'wished she should dress as a man?
The traitor was at her ear whispering; the cold chill of disappointment, of disillusion, of sickening doubt was in her heart. Then there came into the prison a better man than L'Oyseleur, Jean Beaupere, her questioner in the public trial, the representative of all these notabilities.
I had also a third one for the Fierbois sword made of very strong leather. 'Were you wearing that sword, asked Beaupère, 'when you were captured? 'No, I had not one then; I used to wear it constantly up to the time that I left Saint Denis, after the assault on Paris. 'What benediction did you bestow on that sword?
'What did you attempt to do against Paris? 'Was it on a feast day? asked the priest. 'It was, replied Joan. And on being asked if she considered it right to make an attack on such a day, she refused to answer. It is plain that the gist of those questions made by Beaupère was to try and make Joan of Arc avow that her voices had given her evil counsel.
Beaupere presently took up his work again, but the humiliation of his defeat weighed upon him, and he made but a rambling and dreary business of it, he not being able to put any heart in it.
Then Beaupère asked the prisoner if she had visited Sainte Catherine de Fierbois. 'Yes, she answered; 'I heard mass there twice in one day, on my way to Chinon. 'How did you communicate your message to the King? 'I sent a letter asking him if I might be allowed to see him. That I had come one hundred and fifty miles to bring him assistance, and that I had much to do for him.
She answered: "It required me to remain behind at St. Denis. I would have obeyed if I had been free, but I was helpless by my wound, and the knights carried me away by force." "When were you wounded?" "I was wounded in the moat before Paris, in the assault." The next question reveals what Beaupere had been leading up to: "Was it a feast-day?" You see?
'But was there not a picture of you, asked Beaupère, 'in your host's house at Orleans? Joan of Arc knew nothing regarding such a picture. 'Did you not know, was the next question put, 'that your partisans had prayers and masses said in your honour? 'If they did so, she answered, 'it was not by my wish; but if they prayed for me, she added, 'there was no harm in so doing.
That risky remark of Joan's was this: "Without the Grace of God I could do nothing." The court saw the priest's game, and watched his play with a cruel eagerness. Poor Joan was grown dreamy and absent; possibly she was tired. Her life was in imminent danger, and she did not suspect it. The time was ripe now, and Beaupere quietly and stealthily sprang his trap: "Are you in a state of Grace?"
She seems, however, at the end, to have repeated her oath to answer everything that had to do with the trial "And as much as I say I will say as if I were before the Pope of Rome." These words must have given the Magister Beaupere an admirable occasion for introducing one of the things charged against her for which there was actual proof her letter to the Comte d'Armagnac in respect to the Pope.
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