Inquisition and Inquisitors in France

After the Albigan Crusade - a series of military campaigns to eradicate the Qatari heresy in the south of France in 1209-1229 - the Catholic Church established the sacred tribunals, entrusting them with a secret search for heretics, which nevertheless managed to protect themselves from its punishing right hand. So in France the formation of the Inquisition began, which later spread throughout the Catholic world. Natalia of Moscow tells how the French Inquisition was arranged, what was its features, how she interacted with the papal throne and royal power. And also about how prisons were arranged, how the suspects were interrogated, what torture were in use and what punishments were practiced by the sentence of the Inquisition Court. It complements all this historical essay on the activities of the Inquisition in France in the XIII - XVIII centuries with a description of its most high -profile investigations and acts of famous inquisitors.
Natalia Moscow - historian, psychologist, translator from English and French