In Bossuet's opinion, as in Gerson's, these things are matters of edification, not of faith.

Writing for the instruction of a prince, Bossuet was bound to abridge; but his abridgment goes too far when, representing Jeanne's condemnation to be the work of the Bishop of Beauvais, he omits to say that the Bishop of Beauvais pronounced this sentence with the unanimous concurrence of the University of Paris, and in conjunction with the Vice-Inquisitor.[118] [Footnote 116: _Oeuvres de messire Jacques-Benigne Bossuet_, Paris, in 4to, vol.xi, 1749, numbered pages; vol.xii, pp.

234 _et seq._ Cf.
what he says of inspired persons in _l'Instruction sur les etats d'oraison_, Paris, 1697, in 8vo.] [Footnote 117: "This girl called Jeanne d'Arq ...

had been a servant in an inn," _loc.

cit._, p.