![]() ![]() De Stogumber and Canon de Courcelles protest to the court that their sixty-four meticulously drawn-up charges have been reduced to only twelve indictments. Warwick is informed that all that is desired by Joan's judges is to save her soul, but he demands Joan's death as a political necessity ironically, The Maid herself is her own worst enemy: Every time she speaks, she convicts herself with blasphemies.Īs Warwick departs, the court assembles. ![]() The Inquisitor informs Warwick that all evidence is in, and they are ready to proceed. ![]() Cauchon introduces Warwick to the Inquisitor (Brother John Lemaitre), a seemingly mild, elderly man, and to the chief prosecutor, Canon John D'Estivet. The court has already held six public and nine private examinations, and there seems to be no progress. ![]() Warwick, who is forbidden to be present at an ecclesiastical trial, has come to inquire of "Pious Peter" Cauchon about the progress of the trial. Approximately nine months have elapsed since Joan's capture, and, as we learn later, Warwick has ransomed Joan from her captors and has turned her over to the ecclesiastical court to be tried for heresy. This scene is set in a great hall arranged for a trial, with a circular table surrounding a rough wooden stool for the prisoner. ![]()
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