Between February 22 and March 3, there were five public sessions. They began at 8 a.m. and finished at 11 a.m. Joan sat facing the assembled churchmen. Often several of them put questions at the same time and interrupted her answers.
At one stage, she said, “Good gentlemen, one after the other.”
At another time, two of her questioners were asking her questions simultaneously. Joan told them she did not want to reply to so many questions at once.
“You do me great injustice to torment me like this. I have already replied on all these matters.”
Jean Beaupère, a man who had no sympathy whatsoever for Joan, was leading the questioning at one particular session. Even he became tired of the constant interruptions and angrily told his colleagues, “Let her speak! It is I who have the job of int
