THE MAID AT BEAUREVOIR--CATHERINE DE LA ROCHELLE AT PARIS--EXECUTION OF LA PIERRONNE
The Maid had been taken captive in the diocese of Beauvais.[2056] At that time the Bishop Count of Beauvais was Pierre Cauchon of Reims, a great and pompous clerk of the University of Paris, which had elected him rector in 1403. Messire Pierre Cauchon was not a moderate man; with great ardour he had thrown himself into the Cabochien riots.[2057] In 1414, the Duke of Burgundy had sent him on an embassy to the Council of Constance to defend the doctrines of Jean Petit;[2058] then he had appointed him Master of Requests in 1418, and finally raised him to the episcopal see of Beauvais.[2059] Standing equally high in the favour of the English, Messire Pierre was Councillor of King Henry VI, Almoner of France a
