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Updated: August 14, 2024
This was the substance of the twelve articles which Cauchon laid before the doctors of theology and law in Paris.
For the pen that had served Joan of Arc could not serve any that would come after her in this earth without abasement. The next day, May 29th, Cauchon summoned his serfs, and forty-two responded. It is charitable to believe that the other twenty were ashamed to come. The forty-two pronounced her a relapsed heretic, and condemned her to be delivered over to the secular arm. Cauchon thanked them.
It was difficult for me to realize that this frail little creature with the sad face and drooping form was the same Joan of Arc that I had so often seen, all fire and enthusiasm, charging through a hail of death and the lightning and thunder of the guns at the head of her battalions. It wrung my heart to see her looking like this. But Cauchon was not touched.
'I only request, she answered, 'that the Church and all good Catholics will pray for me. Some of the judges had suggested that, in a more public place than in her prison, Joan of Arc should be again admonished relating to the crimes of which she was accused; and Cauchon accordingly summoned a public meeting of the judges for the 2nd of May, to be held in a chamber near the Great Hall.
Nothing had been neglected to give the greatest solemnity to the cruel farce which Cauchon had prepared to be now enacted a solemnity by which the Bishop hoped to degrade Joan of Arc in the eyes of the people.
In the month of November of that year , in spite of the entreaties of his wife and aunt, Ligny delivered up his prisoner into the custody of the Duke of Burgundy, from whose keeping she was soon transferred into that of the English. On the 20th of November the University of Paris sent a message to Cauchon, advising him to bring Joan of Arc before a tribunal.
By some trick this signature was changed for a long document, in which she was made to confess all her visions false. It is certain that she did not understand her words in this sense. Cauchon had triumphed. The blame of heresy and witchcraft was cast on Joan, and on her king as an accomplice.
Besides being kept under the eyes of these wretches, and exposed to their insults and mockery, she was subjected to espial from without. Winchester, the Inquisitor, and Cauchon had each a key to the tower, and watched her hourly through a hole in the wall. Each stone of this infernal dungeon had eyes.
By the 26th of March the articles were drawn up and ready, and were approved of in a meeting held by Cauchon in his own house. And on these articles, or rather heads of articles, the further trial of the prisoner was to be carried on. The examination took place on the days following in a chamber next to the great hall in the castle. Nine judges, besides Cauchon, attended.
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.
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