reaty of Troyes to which they had sworn; they were devoted to the
Regent who showed them great consideration; they abhorred the
Armagnacs, who desolated and laid waste their city, the most beautiful
in the world;[2034] they held that the Dauphin Charles had forfeited
his rights to the Kingdom of the Lilies. Wherefore they inclined to
believe that the Maid of the Armagnacs, the woman knight of the
Dauphin Charles, was inspired by a company of loathsome demons. These
scholars of the University were human; they believed what it was to
their interest to believe; they were priests and they beheld the Devil
everywhere, but especially in a woman. Without having devoted
themselves to any profound examination of the deeds and sayings of
this damsel, they knew enough to cause them to demand an immediate
inquiry. She called herself the emissary of God, the daughter of God;
and she appeared loquacious, vain, crafty, gorgeous in her attire. She
had threatened the English that if they did not quit France she would
have them all slain. She commanded armies, wherefore she was a slayer
of her fellow-creatures and foolhardy. She was seditious, for are not
all those seditious who support the opposite party? But recently
having appeared before Paris in company with Friar Richard, a heretic,
and a rebel,[2035] she had threatened to put the Parisians to death
without mercy and committed the mortal sin of storming the city on the
Anniversary of the Nativity of Our Lady. It was important to examine
whether in all this she had been inspired by a good spirit or a
bad.[2036]

[Footnote 2034: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, _passim_.
Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 450.]

[Footnote 2035: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 237. T. Basin,
_Histoire de Charles VII et de Louis XI_, vol. iv, pp. 103, 104.
Monstrelet, vol. iv, ch. lxiii. Bougenot, _Deux documents inedits
relatifs a Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Revue bleue_, 13 Feb., 1892, pp. 203,
204.]

[Footnote 2036: Le P. Denifle and Chatelain, _Chartularium
Universitatis Parisiensis_, vol. iv, p. 515, no. 2370; _Le proces de
Jeanne d'Arc et l'universite de Paris_.]

Despite his strong attachment to the interests of the Church, the Duke
of Burgundy did not respond to the urgent demand of the University;
and Messire Jean de Luxembourg, after having kept the Maid three or
four days in his quarters before Compiegne, had her taken to the
Castle of Beaulieu in Vermandois, a few leagues from the ca