Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai : ou histoire secrète et abrégée des initiés, anciens et modernes, des templiers franc-maçons, illuminés, etc. et Recherches sur leur influence dans la Révolution française ; suivie de la Clef des Loges

Aragon, Sicily, and England obeyed.

At this time, the people were dissatisfied with the government; already, the rigor of the taxes and the malversation of Philip the Fair's council regarding the currency had excited a sedition in Paris in 1306. It was spread about that the Templars had fomented this revolt; the court recalled that they had blamed the king's tyrannical rigor toward Enguerrand de Marigny and Barbette, the provost of Paris. The true motive for the persecution was the desire to seize their property; but they sought every