Note 17 — Chapter X · THE SAVONAROLA FALLACY
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In the historic crusade against the Albigenses in 1209, when Béziers was captured and every human being therein slain, seven thousand were, by the famous order of the Papal Legate,17 put to the sword in the great church of St. Mary Magdalene, to which they had fled for sanctuary; and the whole city, with its churches, was burned to the ground. During the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, says a social historian, a cleric—