Note 396 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 3)

Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 188-210.—Procès, pp. 509-10.—Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1431.

When the excitement which led to Joan’s condemnation passed away, and she was found to have been a useless victim, there was an effort made to shift the responsibility from the ecclesiastical to the secular authorities: it was claimed that there had been an irregularity in her execution without a formal judgment in the lay court. Two years afterwards, Louis de Luxembourg, then Archbishop of Rouen, and Guillaume Duval, vicar of the inquisitor, condemned for heresy a certain Georges Solenfant, and in delivering him to the Bailli of Rouen they gave instructions that he should not be put to death, as Joan had been, without a definitive judgment, in consequence of which there was a form of sentencing him.—L’Averdy, p. 498.