of
Alencon, on the point of making an alliance with the English and of
procuring a powder with which to dry up the King,[2716] but who was
none the less talkative and vain-glorious;[2717] Jeanne's steward,
Messire Jean d'Aulon, who had become a knight, a King's Counsellor and
Seneschal of Beaucaire,[2718] and the little page Louis de Coutes, now
a noble of forty-two.[2719] Brother Pasquerel too was called; even in
his old-age he remained superficial and credulous.[2720] And there was
heard also the widow of Maitre Rene de Bouligny, Demoiselle Marguerite
la Toroulde, who delicately and with a good grace related what she
remembered.[2721]

[Footnote 2712: _Ibid._, pp. 1, 19.]

[Footnote 2713: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 202.]

[Footnote 2714: _Ibid._, pp. 2 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2715: _Ibid._, p. 16.]

[Footnote 2716: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. vi, p.
43. P. Dupuy, _Histoire des Templiers_, 1658, in 4to. Cimber and
Danjou, _Archives curieuses de l'histoire de France_, vol. i, pp.
137-157. (See also, Michelet, History of France, translated by G.H.
Smith, vol. ii, p. 206.) Note--Alencon says to his English valet: "If
I could have a powder that I wot of and put it in the vessel in which
the King's sheets are washed, he should sleep sound enough [_dormir
tout sec_]." _Trial of Alencon_ (W.S.).]

[Footnote 2717: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 90.]

[Footnote 2718: _Ibid._, p. 209.]

[Footnote 2719: _Ibid._, p. 65.]

[Footnote 2720: _Ibid._, p. 100.]

[Footnote 2721: _Ibid._, p. 85.]

Care was taken not to summon the Lord Archbishop of Rouen, Messire
Raoul Roussel, as a witness of the actual incidents of the trial,
albeit he had sat in judgment on the Maid, side by side with my Lord
of Beauvais. As for the Vice Inquisitor of Religion, Brother Jean
Lemaistre, he might have been dead, so completely was he ignored.
Nevertheless, certain of the assessors were called: Jean Beaupere,
canon of Paris, of Besancon and of Rouen; Jean de Mailly, Lord Bishop
of Noyon; Jean Lefevre, Bishop of Demetriade; divers canons of Rouen,
sundry ecclesiastics who appeared some unctuous, others stern and
frowning;[2722] and, finally, the most illustrious Thomas de
Courcelles, who, after having been the most laborious and assiduous
collaborator of the Bishop of Beauvais, recalled nothing when he came
before the commissioners for the revision.[2723]

[Footnote 2722: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 20, 21, 161; vol. iii, pp. 43,
53, _passim_.]