Note 19 — Chapter X · THE SAVONAROLA FALLACY

In the wars of Burgundy and France in the fifteenth century Catholics habitually plundered Catholic churches. At the siege of Saint-Denis in 1411 “the Germans, the Bretons, and the Gascons promised themselves the pillage of the church and the treasures of the abbey.”19 Later “the English, the Picards, and the Parisians ... entered the monastery ... pillaged the apartments of the inmates, and carried away the cups, the utensils, all the furniture.”20 At Soissons, in 1414,