Tuesday, July 7, 2009

We visited the Tour de Constance in Aigues Mortes. King Louis IX launched the crusades from here. He also built a tower and named it after his daughter. The protestant women were imprisoned here for many years. Mary Durand was arrested the day of her marriage and spent 38 years in the tower. All she had to do for liberty was to recant, convert to catholicism and take the mass. This monument also shows a boat because the protestant men were sent to the galleys to row the king`s warships. The average life of a pastor, once he took up that job was two years. They died in assorted and cruel ways.

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