pope.

This scene, set in the deep shadows of a crossroad in the forest,
resembled rather an evocation between magician and demon than
an agreement entered upon between king and pope.

Also the coronation of the King, which took place shortly afterward
at Lyons, and which began the Church's captivity, seemed but little
agreeable to God. Just as the royal procession was passing, a
wall crowded with spectators fell, wounding the King and killing
the Duc de Bretagne. The Pope was thrown to the ground, and his
tiara rolled in the mud.

Bertrand de Got was elected pope under the name of Clement V.

Clement V. paid all that Bertrand de Got had promised. Philippe
was absolved, Holy Communion restored to him and his, the purple
again descended upon the shoulders of the Colonna, the Church
was obliged to defray the expenses of the war in Flanders and
Philippe de Valois's crusade against the Greek Empire. The memory
of Pope Boniface VIII. was, if not destroyed and annulled, at
least besmirched; the walls of the Temple were razed, and the
Templars burned on the open space of the Pont Neuf.

All these edicts--they were no longer called bulls from the moment
the temporal power dictated them--all these edicts were dated
at Avignon.

Philippe le Bel was the richest of all the kings of the French
monarchy; he possessed an inexhaustible treasury, that is to