The death of Simon de
Montort by the French artist Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885). This
book illustration was done for Guizot's History of France. Simon de
Montort was the cruel leader in the Albigensian Crusade or Cathar
Crusade (1209–1229) an was killed during the siege of Toulouse on
25 June 1218 smashed by a stone from a mangonel, operated by the
women of Toulouse.
I wonder what made de Neuville choose the Simon de Montort story in his mid 19th century book. Was there a moral lesson to be learned?
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