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LANGUEDOC To the enemy of the Dominican Inquisition. Already, in 1291, Fran^ ctcansTn Carcassonne ha4 er^deavore^to intervene .nc^^^^^^^^ heresy, and had been sharply reproved by Pluhppe le Bel at the i^stan^e of the Inquisitor Guillaume de ^-"^'-^^^^JlB^rSl had supported the appeal of the men of Carcassonne to Boniface Vm and throughout the whole of Bernard's agitation the Fran- Iscan Events L seen to be rallying^points of the opposiUo. It is there that Bernard preaches his fiery sermons it s ttee that meetings are held to plan resistance, during the tr^^^^^^^^^ in Carcassonne Foulques de Saint-Georges went ^ ^h twenty^^^ men to the Franciscan convent to cite the opponents of the Inqui Stlon The friars would not admit them, but tolled the bell and an angry crowd assembled, while those inside the convent assail d them wfth stones and quarrels, and they were glad to escape with j ^^ Vaillfthe inquisitors complained to the Franciscan prelates of Jernard as an Lpeder of the Holy Office. The form of a trial would be gone through, and the offender would be furnished with Xrs attestin.. his innocence. The Dominicans asserted that Cir^lfwas solely causedby jealousy; ^^^ Franciscjn^^^^^ torted that their friends were the special objects of mquis^onal perseculn King Philippe's confessor was a Dominican, Queen Joanna's a Francfscan, and the two courtly friars took part, for arriLst the Inquisition, with a zeal which rendered them im- ^.ortaftfTctors in L struggle. The undying hostility between Sftwo n always ledThem to opposite sides in every ques- tllm If dogtlor prLtice, and this was one which afforded the '^^tlt ri'l'l'Iir ted on the so-called heretics of Albi, m The c-oMi» <^^ ™« ^^ ^^^ g^^jted con- December, 1299, ^nd the ear y ^^^^ SSS '^jZS,tZZ.s breaking out afi-esh, and he ^S n.^ Te avers^tomakinghi^-^ that they had a ^ p. 148).-MSS. Bib. Nat., fonds latin, No. 4270, lol. ^^i. X. 268. . . , a 19 22 24, 26, 32, 40, 63, 70, Bouquet, kxi. 748).-CoU. Doat, XXXIV. 26.