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Updated: June 10, 2025
"It told me to answer boldly, and God would help me." Then she turned toward Cauchon and said, "You say that you are my judge; now I tell you again, take care what you do, for in truth I am sent of God and you are putting yourself in great danger." Beaupere asked her if the Voice's counsels were not fickle and variable. "No. It never contradicts itself.
She said that quite simply; and the contrast between her delicate little self and the grim soldier words which she dropped with such easy familiarity from her lips made many spectators smile. "What is become of the other sword? Where is it now?" "Is that in the proces verbal?" Beaupere did not answer. "Which do you love best, your banner or your sword?"
Wearied with the persistence and threats of her arch-tormentor, Cauchon, Joan said that she had been sent by God and wished to return to God. 'I have nothing more to do here, she added. Beaupère was again ordered to cross-examine the prisoner. He began by asking her when she had last eaten. 'Not since yesterday at mid-day, she said. Beaupère then began again to question her regarding the voice.
The latter was the only one of the above Bishops, Dominicans, and members of the French Church who gave his vote against the condemnation of Joan of Arc, although the trial minutes have not recorded the fact. Besides the above French prelates, were: John Beaupère, M.A. and D.D., formerly a rector of the University of Paris, also a canon of Besançon.
Beaupère next inquired as to what had become of Joan of Arc's goods. She said her brother had her horses and her goods; she said she believed the latter amounted to some twelve thousand écus. 'Had you not, asked the priest, 'when you went to Orleans, a banner or pennon? Of what colour was that? 'My banner had a field all covered with fleurs-de-lis.
'But, next inquired Beaupère, 'when you were at the castle of Beaurevoir, did not the ladies there ask you to do so? 'Yes, was the answer, 'and they offered to give me a woman's dress. But the time had not yet come. She would, she added, have yielded sooner to the wishes of those ladies than to those of any other, the Queen excepted.
These were Jean de la Fontaine, a lawyer learned in canon law; Jean Beaupere, already her interrogator; Nicolas Midi, a Doctor in Theology; Pierre Morice, Canon of Rouen and Ambassador from the English King to the Council of Bale; Thomas de Courcelles, the learned and excellent young Doctor already described; Nicolas l'Oyseleur, the traitor, also already sufficiently referred to; and Manchon, the honest Clerk of the court: the names of Gerard Feuillet, also a distinguished man, and Jean Fecardo, an advocate, are likewise also mentioned.
When had she last heard it? 'On the previous day, Joan said, 'and also on that day too. 'At what o'clock of the day before? Thrice she had heard the voice in the morning, and once at the hour of Vespers, and again when the Ave Maria was being sung. 'What were you doing, asked Beaupère, 'when the voices called you? 'I was sleeping, answered Joan, 'and the voice awoke me.
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