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...indeed the Duke of Burgundy's men who captured Joan of Arc, who was then sold to the English for 10,000 gold crowns, but it was the English who turned her in to a clerical court (headed by Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais). The court declared her excommunicate, a "limb of Satan," and handed her over to the secular arm, i.e., the English occupation authorities in northern France. The English burned her at the stake...
...other roles, Jose Ferrer, as the Dauphin, is rather interesting, and Francis L. Sullivan, as Cauchon, is menacing enough; but since his part in the plot called for him to prolong my stay at the Astor long after my interest had left, I'm not saying anything good about...
Members of the "Saint Joan" cast are: Donna Holabird as Joan, Mendy Weisgal '45 1G as the Dauphin, Thayer David as the Inquisitor, Charles Sedgwick 1G as the Archbishop, Jerome T. Kilty '50 as Cauchon, Joseph D. Everingham '49 as Dunois, William A. West '49 as Warwick, H. M. Temple 3rd '47 as Robert de Beaudricourt and as the English soldier...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...Bishop Cauchon was scarcely cold in his grave before Pope Calixtus IV excommunicated him, while the enraged Rouenais dug up his body and flung it into the town sewer. Last week, further restitution was made to the Maid of Orleans...