Process de Condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc. Texte, Traduction et Notes
par Pierre Champion. Two volumes. (Paris : Champion.)—M. Pierre Champion, the well-known mediaevalist, has produced a scholarly new edition of the report of the trial of St. Joan of Arc in 1431. He gives in one volume the Latin text and the surviving fragments of what he regards as the French original, and in another volume a full translation in modern French with a long historical introduction, full notes and an index. His edition is more complete and more con- venient to use than the five volumes in which Quicherat edited the text eighty years ago. Of the trial M. Champion says that it was " a masterpiece of partiality under the appearance of the most regular of procedures." Pierre Cauchon, the Burgun- dian Bishop of Beauvais, was the evil genius of the piece, but it is fair to remember that his own Church repudiated him five- and-twenty years later.
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