Title : The Devil's Brothers - Gilbert Bordes - Book
Summary :
The story begins with a curse. In 1314, Philip the Fair destroyed the Order of the Temple and burned its grand master, Jacques de Molay, alive. By dying, the innocent man invoked the wrath of God, who soon descended upon the kingdom. In hiding, the Templars resisted. To avenge them, they relied on a young orphan named Patte-Raide, originally from Limousin. The obscure peasant boy proved to be a great captain. By the thousands, from the Cévennes to the Pyrenees, children joined him, driven by poverty. At the head of these "Pastoureaux," he pillaged and sowed desolation in the name of an ideal whose meaning he no longer understood. A bloody crusade. Terrible repression. Patte-Raide wondered if his masters, men of God, had not become brothers of the devil...
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