Her trial was solemnly revised and her conduct approved of by a final sentence which the Pope himself confirmed.

The Burgundians were forced to raise the siege of Compiegne," _loc.

cit._ p.236.Mezeray is more credulous than Bossuet; he mentions "the Saints Catherine and Margaret, who purified her soul with heavenly conversations, wherefore she venerated them with a particular devotion." In relating the trial, he like Bossuet, ignores the Vice-Inquisitor (_Histoire de France_, vol.ii, 1746, in folio, pp.

11 _et seq._)] The eighteenth-century philosophers did not descend on France like a cloud of locusts; they were the result of two centuries of the critical spirit.

If the story of Jeanne d'Arc contained too much monkish superstition for their taste, it was because they had learned their ecclesiastical history from the Baillets and the Tillemonts, who were pious indeed, but very critical of legends.