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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXIV
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"You lie," said the bishop.

And the bishop was right; the chaplain did lie; the bishop had no intention of betraying his masters.

The Earl of Warwick complained to him of the inadequacy of the sentence.

"Never you mind, my lord," said one of Peter Cauchon's confidants; "we will have her up again." After the passing of her sentence Joan had said to those about her, "Come, now, you churchmen amongst you, lead me off to your own prisons, and let me be no more in the hands of the English." "Lead her to where you took her," said the bishop; and she was conducted to the castle prison.

She had been told by some of the judges who went to see her after her sentence, that she would have to give up her man's dress and resume her woman's clothing, as the Church ordained.


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