chapel on her way to the hall of judgment, granted her request, and
was threatened by Cauchon, should it again occur, to be thrown into
prison where, as Cauchon said to him, he would not have 'the light of
sun or moon.' Massieu remained till the end with Joan, and it is he
who records that the executioner found, after the body had been
destroyed, that the heart remained unconsumed. He also relates that
the executioner was ordered to collect the ashes and all that
remained, and to throw those few relics of humanity into the Seine,
which was accordingly done. Martin Ladvenu followed Massieu. Ladvenu
was a Dominican friar: he was one of the few priests who showed some
humanity to the victim. It was to him that Joan of Arc confessed on
the morning of her death, and it was also to him that the executioner
came on the night of the martyrdom, and said that no execution had
ever affected him as that one had done. Next to arrive was Isambard de
la Pierre, a Dominican priest. He had been an acolyte of the
Vice-Inquisitor, Lemaitre; he too, like Ladvenu, had shown sympathy
with the sufferer, had given her advice during the trial, and had
helped to soothe her last moments. De la Pierre states in his evidence
regarding her supposed refusal to submit herself to the Church, that
Joan of Arc, when she was told by her judges to submit herself,
thought they meant themselves by the Church of which they spoke to
her; but when she was told by him what the Church really signified she
always said she submitted herself to it and to the Pope. It was to
Isambard de la Pierre that Joan begged for a cross when on the pile
and about to die. 'As I was close by the poor child,' he says, 'she
begged me humbly to go to the church close at hand and bring her a
cross to hold up right before her eyes, till her death, so that the
cross on which God hung might as long as she lived appear before her.
She died a true and good Christian. In the midst of the flames she
never ceased calling on the sacred name of Jesus, and invoking the aid
of the saints in Paradise. When the fire was lit she begged me to get
down from off the stake with my cross, but to hold it still before
her, which I did. At last, bending down her head, with a strong voice
calling on the name of Jesus, she gave up the ghost.'

Yet another priest succeeds: this is 'venerable et religieux personne,
frere Jean Toutmouille,' of the order of the preaching friars of
Rouen. Toutmouille was quite a