The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc

by Eugène Sue

[45] See the preceding volume of this series, "The Iron Trevet."

[46] Proceedings of the Rehabilitation, vol. II, p. 450.

[47] Godefroid, Chronicle of the Maid, p. 500; Godefroid, Chronicle of Berry, p. 376; Memoirs of Argus and Richemont.

[48] Godefroid, p. 754. quoted by Jules Quicherat, in the introduction to the Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc, p. 27.

[49] Chronicle of Percival of Cagny, vol. IV. p. 19.

[50] Chronicle of Percival of Cagny, vol. IV. p. 19.

[51] Chronicle of Percival of Cagny, vol. IV. p. 19.

[52] It is useless to cite the chroniclers severally on the subject of this shameless and abominable examination. They are all agreed on the fact.

[53] Chronicle of Percival of Cagny, cited by Quicherat, vol. III, p. 71.

[54] The interrogations and the replies thereto by Joan are here taken in the main literally from The Chronicle of the Maid, a manuscript now in the possession of the Institute at Paris, No. 245, cited by Quicherat in his Trial and Condemnation of Joan of Arc, vol. IV, p. 209; also in the Proceedings of the Rehabilitation, vol. III, pp. 204-206.