The_Agitator_of_Languedoc
by the French painter Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). Laurens shows
here Bernard Délicieux was a Franciscan friar who resisted the
Inquisition in Carcassonne and Languedoc in southern France. At last
he was put on trial because of obstructing the Inquisition tortured
and sentenced to life in prison in solitary confinement.
Religios fanatism was
one of the great subjects of Laurens.
Bernard Délicieux was damned if he did and damned if he did not. When the Inquisition got going in Souther France, it took on a ferocious life of its own. Noone could get out of its way.
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