Béarn and the Pyrenees Béarn and the Pyrenees

Béarn and the Pyrenees

Publisher Description

In this town lived and died the traitor Bishop of Bayeux, Pierre Cauchon, who sold the heroic Jeanne d'Arc for English gold. An expiatory chapel was erected by him in the cathedral, where it was hoped the tears of the pious would help to wash his sins away; but no one now remembers either him or his crime, for we asked in vain for the spot; and when prayers are offered at the shrine of the Virgin in the chapel dedicated to her, which we eventually discovered to be its site, not one is given to the cruel bishop, whose ill-gotten money was therefore expended in vain; for the centuries it must have required to rescue his soul from purgatory cannot have expired by this time.

GENRE
Travel & Adventure
RELEASED
1870
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
763
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
993.5
KB

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