But Jeanne before the doctors at Poitiers was an exception; she ran no risk of being suspected in matters of faith.

Even Brother Pierre Turelure himself had no desire to find in her one of those heretics he zealously sought to discover at Toulouse.

In her presence the illustrious masters drew in their theological claws.

They were churchmen, but they were Armagnacs, for the most part business men, diplomatists, old councillors of the Dauphin.[739] As priests, doubtless they were possessed of a certain body of dogma and morality, and of a code of rules for judging matters of faith.

But now it was a question not of curing the disease of heresy, but of driving out the English.