Given that the French people were being ruled by the English it is possible that the authors had to make the pronouncement in fear of the English.
This was based on the decision to punish Joan of arch because she had been accused of heresy at the time.
The reason for the pronouncement on her was because she had tried to fight the English people and enthrone a king through revelations she said she had.
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