killing people and breaking things

[victor steinbok]

Interesting... goes contrary to the "lore" on a couple of levels--both
ignoring the role of the Cisterian abbot and translating the infamous line
in a new way. There are some other interesting details [OT]. The source I
cited earlier has Simon's head literally blown off by a rock thrown
violently by a woman (after he'd been slowed down by another injury during a
battle). Kind of reminds me of what happened to Somoza in Paraguay when his
armored limo was first stopped by machine-gun fire, then blown away with a
rocket launcher. Contemporaneous accounts differed widely from the current
Wiki version (limo vs. sedan, armed vs. unarmed, RPG hit from the rooftop
vs. from the side, etc.)

VS-)

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Here is a cite for the variant using the word "sort" (as opposed to
> recognize). It seems to be dated 1932. Charlie may wish to include
> this unless there is something wrong with it.
>
> Cite: 1932, French history by Emile Saillens, GB Page 42, J.B.
> Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. (Google Books snippet; Not verified
> on paper; Data may be inaccurate; WorldCat agrees with the date)
>
> ... butchered wholesale in 1208. "Kill them all," said Simon, "God
> will sort them out!" Albi, Carcassonne and other cities fared hardly
> better. But after twenty years of carnage and looting, heresy still
> persisted and the land was placed under the Inquisition. ...
>
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dXAxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22sort+them%22#search_anchor
>
> The 1932 copyright date is visible in the snippet with Lippincott.
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dXAxAQAAIAAJ&q=Lippincott#search_anchor

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