Museum of the Inquisition
Seventeenth-century house displaying torture instruments and the story of heresy trials.
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This guide to the Museum of the Inquisition in Carcassonne follows Bernard Délicieux, a Franciscan friar who, around the turn of the fourteenth century, set himself against the inquisitors hunting Cathar heretics in the region. It touches on the records that named names, the appeals to King Philip the Fair, and the dreaded prison known simply as the Wall. Best heard among the chains and iron devices of the first rooms.
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