The history of the city of Toulouse gives us a significant example on
this subject.
[Illustration: Fig. 30.--The Bishop of Tournai receiving the Tithe of Beer
granted by King Chilperic.--From the Windows of the Cathedral of Tournai,
Fifteenth Century.]
On Easter Day, 1335, some students of the university, who had passed the
night of the anniversary of the resurrection of our Saviour in drinking,
left the table half intoxicated, and ran about the town during the hours
of service, beating pans and cauldrons, and making such a noise and
disturbance, that the indignant preachers were obliged to stop in the
middle of their discourses, and claimed the intervention of the municipal
authorities of Toulouse. One of these, the lord of Gaure, went out of
church with five sergeants, and tried himself to arrest the most turbulent
of the band. But as he was seizing him by the body, one of his comrades
gave the lord a blow with a dagger, which cut off his nose, lips, and
part of his chin. This occurrence aroused the whole town. Toulouse had
been insulted in the person of its first magistrate, and claimed
vengeance. The author of the deed, named Aimeri de Berenger, was seized,
judged, condemned, and beheaded, and his body was suspended on the
_spikes_ of the Chateau Narbonnais.
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