The student's France, a history of France from the earliest times to the establishment of the second empire in 1852 (1870) (14765769925)

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Title: The student's France, a history of France from the earliest times to the establishment of the second empire in 1852
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jervis, W. H. (William Henley), 1813-1883
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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Jeannes pretended revelations were pronounced to have come, notfrom God, but from the Evil One; she was found guilty of blas-phemy, imposture, indecency, schismatical opinions upon the unity and authority of the Church.She was now again broughtbefore the judges, and re-quired to sign an act of re-tractation, with threats of in-stant death by fire in case ofrefusal. Overcome by terror,she set her hand to a scheduleby which she confessed her-self a deliberate deceiver, andwas thereupon condemned tothe penance of perpetual im-prisonment upon bread andwater. It is alleged thatscandalous means were nowresorted to to induce her toretract her abjuration ; andthis end was obtained in thecourse of a few days by herresuming her male attire, anda&sertino; that she had received fresh communications from her at-tendant saints and angels. Upon this the unhappy girl washanded over as a relapsed penitent to the secular arm ; and on the30th of May, 1431, being brought out upon the market-place o£
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Jeanne Dare, the Maid of Orleans.From an ancient MS. A.D. 1431-1-132. TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JEANNE DARC. 251 Rouen, she was burnt to death at the stake, affirming with her lastbreatli that her ^ voices had not deceived her, and tliat all she haddone had been in accordance with the command of God. Neverwas there a truer martyrdom than that of the Maid of Orleans. It is difficult to apportion the amount of guilt among the severalactors in this miserable drama. To charge it undividedlj upon theEnglish were a palpable injustice. The fortune of war had throwninto their power an enemy whose unexampled successes threatenedthe utter ruin of their cause, and who was popularly regarded bytheir party as no better than an instrument of Satan. The regentand his council shamefully abused this advantage ; but others mustat least share the disgrace—the Duke of Burgundy, tiie heads ofthe Inquisition, the stern bigots of the Sorbonne, the bloodthii-styCauchon ofBeauvais. And perhaps the blackest par