About Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray
Jeanne d'Arc (c. 1412-1431) was a peasant girl from Domremy whose claimed divine voices, military presence, and political mission helped bring Charles VII to coronation before she was captured, tried, and burned at Rouen. Pierre Cauchon presided over the condemnation trial; Guillaume Bouille helped lead the later rehabilitation process; T. Douglas Murray published a public-domain English translation of the records in 1902.
The trial records of Joan of Arc are not a saint's life in the ordinary devotional sense. They are hostile legal documents that accidentally preserve one of the most vivid medieval voices.
