[148] Sismondi, Crusades, pp. 28–29. [↑]
[151] For a modern Catholic defence of the whole proceedings see the Comte de Montalembert’s Histoire de Sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie, 13e édit. intr. pp. 35–40. [↑]
[152] Sismondi, Crusades, p. 35, and refs.; Lea, i, 154. [↑]
[153] Sismondi, pp. 36–37, and refs. [↑]
[155] Id. pp. 21, 41. Cp. p. 85 as to later treachery towards Saracens; and p. 123 as to the deeds of the Bishop of Toulouse. See again pp. 140–42 as to the massacre of Marmande. [↑]
[156] As to the international character of the crusade see Sismondi, Crusades, p. 53. [↑]