He carried his zeal for prayer into the territory of blasphemy.

He was guided and controlled by that troop of sacrilegious priests, transmuters of metals, and evokers of demons, by whom he was surrounded at Tiffauges." "You think, then, that the Maid of Orleans was really responsible for his career of evil ?" "To a certain point.Consider.She roused an impetuous soul, ready for anything, as well for orgies of saintliness as for ecstasies of crime.
"There was no transition between the two phases of his being.

The moment Jeanne was dead he fell into the hands of sorcerers who were the most learned of scoundrels and the most unscrupulous of scholars.

These men who frequented the chateau de Tiffauges were fervent Latinists, marvellous conversationalists, possessors of forgotten arcana, guardians of world-old secrets.

Gilles was evidently more fitted to live with them than with men like Dunois and La Hire.