Note 381 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 3)

Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1429.—Le Brun de Charmettes, III. 201-7, 210-12, 215, 224-6.—Procès, pp. 465-7, 477.—L’Averdy, pp. 391, 475, 499.

At least one of the assessors, Thomas de Courcelles, was a man of the highest character and of distinguished learning. Immediately after the trial of Joan he played a distinguished part at the Council of Basle, in opposing the claims of the papacy. Æneas Sylvius says of him, “Inter sacrarum literarum doctores insignis, quo nemo plura ex decretis sacri concilii dictavit, vir juxta doctrinam mirabilis et amabilis, sed modesta quadam verecundia semper intnens terram” (Æn. Sylv. Comment. de Gestis Concil. Basil. Lib. I. p. 7, Ed. 1571).—He died in 1469 as Dean of Nôtre Dame (Le Brun, III. 235).