CHAPTER II.--FRANCE.

Inquisition Introduced in 1233 by Frère Robert le Bugre 113

Opposed by the Prelates.--Encouraged by St. Louis 115

Robert's Insane Massacres and Punishment 116

Inquisition Organized.--Its Activity in 1248 117

Slender Records of its Proceedings 120

Paris _Auto de fé_ in 1310.--Marguerite la Porete 123

Gradual Decadence.--Case of Hugues Aubriot 125

The Parlement Assumes Superior Jurisdiction 130

The University of Paris Supplants the Inquisition 135

Moribund Activity during the Fifteenth Century 138

Attempt to Resuscitate it in 1451 140

It Falls into utter Discredit 144

The French Waldenses.--Their Number and Organization 145

Intermittent Persecution.--Their Doctrines 147

François Borel and Gregory XI. 152

Renewed Persecutions in 1432 and 1441 157

Protected by Louis XI.--Humiliation of the Inquisition 158

Alternations of Toleration and Persecution 159