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Updated: June 18, 2025
But when the army was campaigning elsewhere, these burghers, growing bold again, attacked the garrison that had been left in the town and castle, and distinguished themselves by one of those treacherous massacres which were among the small incidents of that ruthless war. When Simon reappeared in the Albigeois, the people of Ambialet, cowards again, laid down their arms.
The whole passage is worth giving in English, because historians tell us very little about the festive manners of the twelfth century: 'We wish and order that the King of Youth of Ambialet shall keep his festivals, have his seneschals, judges, servants, and officials, and that on the day appointed for the merry-making, the King of Youth shall demand from the most recently married man in the viscounty, and woman who shall have taken a husband, a pail of wine and a quarter of walnuts; and if they refuse, the king can order his officers to break the doors of their house, and neither we nor our bailiffs shall have the right to interfere.
You must know, then, to begin with, that this Ambialet which you occupy with your petty broils was once an important burg with its charters and liberties, its consul and council of prud'hommes and its own court of justice. It had its guilds, too of midwives for instance, Maman Vacher, who were bound to obey any reasonable summons " "You, there, just listen to that!" put in the baker.
So she will miss her offering; her people will bleed in their purses; and I, being quits with both, will leave Ambialet the way I came. "'You call that being quits, Master Tibbald? said the Viscount, musing. 'Truly, you are not vindictive! "'A merchant, my lord, has a merchant's way of looking at such affairs, answered Tibbald.
Yes! these were thriving times for Ambialet before ever the heresy infected the Albigeois, and when every year brought the Great Pilgrimage and the Retreat.
But by and by, his anger rising on top of his fear, he began to curse and threaten and promise what vengeance would fall on Ambialet when the Viscount had heard his story, to all of which the boatmen answered only that the Viscount was known to be a just lord, and would doubtless repay all as they deserved.
Maman Vacher and the baker, seeing that the tale was done, continued to regard Pere Philibert each with a foolish grin. Pere Philibert took snuff slowly. You, Pierre Champollion, may read in it that he who, with an eye to his private profit, only runs counter to ancient custom in such a town as our Ambialet, may chance to knock his head upon stones.
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