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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

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v and vi, 1846-1847, contain the evidence).] [Footnote 47: Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de Jeanne d'Arc_, 1889, in 8vo.

_Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

411-468.] Doubtless many matters were elucidated by the one hundred and twenty-three witnesses heard at Domremy, at Vaucouleurs, at Toul, at Orleans, at Paris, at Rouen, at Lyon, witnesses drawn from all ranks of life--churchmen, princes, captains, burghers, peasants, artisans.
But we are bound to admit that they come far short of satisfying our curiosity, and for several reasons.

First, because they replied to a list of questions drawn up with the object of establishing a certain number of facts within the scope of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

The Holy Inquisitor who conducted the trial was curious, but his curiosity was not ours.


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