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139:. Fournier began a rigorous hunt for heretics upon his appointment and set up the new court at Pamiers. He personally supervised almost all of his operations. Fournier only very rarely turned to torture to extract information, and when he did so it was generally under explicit orders from his superiors. The great bulk of his interrogations relied on Fournier's verbal skill at drawing out answers. Ladurie reports the court as conducting 578 interrogations in the 370 days it was in operation. 54: 234:
A witness told Fournier that Raimond deserved to be put to death for saying that Christ was not created through divine intervention, but "just through screwing, like everybody else.". Fournier's records however do not mention whether or not Raimond was sentenced to die.
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Fournier interrogated hundreds of individuals and had transcripts recorded of each interrogation. Fournier also demanded a great deal of detail from those appearing before him. Most of those he interviewed were local
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An even more outspoken villager who was called in for questioning by Fournier, was Raimond de l'Aire. Witnesses had heard him say that "God never made the world, that the world had always existed, that the
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After his time in Pamiers, Fournier was rapidly promoted through the ranks of the church eventually rising to Pope as Benedict XII in 1334. The register followed him and was placed in the
202:, and had subsequently also discussed her nonbelief in the existence of God with her husband and aunt. To her husband she said: "Sir, how is it possible that I cannot believe in our Lord?" 231:
was nothing more than bread and wine, that the rituals of the priests meant nothing, and that he gave to the poor not for his soul but so that others would see him as a good man."
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Prior to Bishop Fournier the local authorities had done little to pursue local heretics, and the region was one of the last areas of France to be home to a significant number of
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and the Fournier register is thus one of the most detailed records of life among medieval peasants. The records have thus frequently been the focus of scholars, most notably
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These would then be expanded into full minutes, which were then presented to the accused for review and alterations in case of errors.
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And she asked her aunt: "Aunt, what might I do to believe in God, and to believe that the body of Christ is really on the altar?"
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Even though the main focus of Fournier's inquisition work was to find Cathars, he was occasionally confronted with
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Another woman, Guillemette of Ornolac, was brought in for interrogation because she doubted the existence of the
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In 1318, Fournier interrogated Aude from the village of Merviel. Aude had initially expressed doubts about the
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During the inquisition itself a scribe would make quick notes in short form to record the conversation.
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where it remains to this day. Complete editions of it have been recently published in Latin and in
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Both women were sentenced to wear a double yellow cross on their backs for the rest of their lives.
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The process also involved translating the dialogue from the local
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between 1318 and 1325. Fournier was later to become Pope
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