Gilles de Rais was innocent

For the full text of the verse drama, click this link:  Le Mistère du Siège d'Orléans . This is the start of the  Mistère itself; earli...

(Click on the picture to enlarge)  An attentive reading of the trial records turns up any number of  contradictions, discrepancies,...

People ask why I am so convinced that Gilles de Rais was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. This is why. The myth of Gilles de Rais ...

According to the splendidly wrong-headed D B Wyndham Lewis, the rehabilitation of Gilles de Rais is a purely 20th century chimera. "It...

One of the most striking oddities in the trial of Gilles de Rais is the deafening silence from members of his household. We are given the f...

Another typically improbable and unsupported anecdote from the witness statements. In 1438 the son of Jean Bernard, aged 12, went to a...

The testimony of outside witnesses at the trial of Gilles de Rais is supposed to constitute a cast-iron case against him. In fact, the evid...