Michele Aue Livres

Despite the diverse nature of Cathar Country, it has conserved an uncommon unity due to its history. It was on these lands, of the langue d'oc, between Gascony, the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean and the Massif Central that Catharism spread in the 12th century. At first fought on the terrain of the doctrine, this dualist Christianity, treated as a heresy, was at the origin of the crusade against the Albigensians. It was more than a century before the religious and political powers managed to put an end to this movement. Meanwhile, the Languedoc had been integrated into the kingdom of France. At the heart of the former fiefdoms of the Counts of Toulouse and Foix or the Viscounts Trencavel, what castle, what village, what abbey, what town does not hold, in the innermost recesses of its walls, memories of these tragic events, but also that of an Occitan culture that the troubadours portrayed so well through song...