r, Isabelle Romee de Vouthon, who lived in
retirement at Orleans,[2702] and her two sons, Pierre and Jean du Lys,
demanded the revision.[2703] By this legal artifice the case was
converted from a political into a private suit. At this juncture
Nicolas V died, on the 24th of March, 1455. His successor, Calixtus
III, a Borgia, an old man of seventy-eight, by a rescript dated the
11th of June, 1455, authorised the institution of proceedings. To this
end he appointed Jean Jouvenel des Ursins, Archbishop of Reims,
Guillaume Chartier, Bishop of Paris, and Richard Olivier, Bishop of
Coutances, who were to act conjointly with the Grand Inquisitor of
France.[2704]

[Footnote 2702: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 276.]

[Footnote 2703: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 108, 112.]

[Footnote 2704: _Ibid._, p. 95. Le P. Ayroles, _La Pucelle devant
l'eglise de son temps_, p. 607. J. Belon and F. Balme, _Jean Brehal,
grand inquisiteur de France et la rehabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc_,
Paris, 1893, in 4to.]

From the first it was agreed that certain of those concerned in the
original trial were not now to be involved, "for they had been
deceived." Notably it was admitted that the Daughter of Kings, the
Mother of Learning, the University of Paris, had been led into error
by a fraudulent indictment consisting of twelve articles. It was
agreed that the whole responsibility should be thrown on to the Bishop
of Beauvais and the Promoter, Guillaume d'Estivet, who were both
deceased. The precaution was necessary. Had it not been taken, certain
doctors very influential with the King and very dear to the Church of
France would have been greatly embarrassed.

On the 7th of November, 1455, Isabelle Romee and her two sons,
followed by a long procession of innumerable ecclesiasties, laymen,
and worthy women, approached the church of Notre Dame in Paris to
demand justice from the prelates and papal commissioners.[2705]

[Footnote 2705: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 82, 92.]

Informers and accusers in the trial of the late Jeanne were summoned
to appear at Rouen on the 12th of December. Not one came.[2706] The
heirs of the late Messire Pierre Cauchon declined all liability for
the deeds of their deceased kinsman, and touching the civil
responsibility, they pleaded the amnesty granted by the King on the
reconquest of Normandy.[2707] As had been expected, the proceedings
went forward without any obstacle or even any discussion.

[Footnote 2706: _Ibid._, pp. 92, 112.]

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