They feared lest Jeanne might be after all what so many learned doctors maintained her to be, a heretic, a miscreant seduced by the prince of darkness.

Satan transforms himself into an angel of light, and it is difficult to distinguish the true prophets from the false.

The hapless Maid was deserted by the very clergy whose croziers had so recently been carried before her; of all the Poitiers masters not one was found to testify in the chateau of Rouen to that innocence which they had officially recognised eighteen months before.
It would be very interesting to trace the reputation of the Maid down the ages.

But to do so would require a whole book.

I shall merely indicate the most striking revolutions of public opinion concerning her.