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 say, his pope.

He had purchased him, he used him, he put him to the press, and as cider flows from apples, so did this crushed pope bleed gold.

The pontificate, struck by the Colonna in the person of Boniface VIII., abdicated the empire of the world in the person of Clement V.
We have related the advent of the king of blood and the pope of gold.
We know how they ended.

Jacques de Molay, from his funeral pyre, adjured them both to appear before God within the year.

_Ae to geron sithullia_, says Aristophanes.