Note 21 — Chapter X · THE SAVONAROLA FALLACY
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the Germans, the Bretons, and the Gascons were as so many wild beasts. The Comte d’Armagnac himself could not restrain them. After having pillaged the houses they set upon the convents and the churches, where the women had taken refuge. They could not escape the brutality of the men of war; the holy ornaments, the reliquaries, all was seized without respect; the hostia, the bones of the martyr, trodden under foot. Never had an army of Christians, commanded by such great seignors and formed of so many noble chevaliers, committed such horrors within the memory of man.21