1 ii.269, 273, 275. His wife returned his love with great affection (ii.466).
1 ‘Great’ is used in the figurative sense: on Pierre Clergue’s smallness of stature, see ii.389.
2 On his claim to polygyny, see i.491 and ii.225.
3 Gébetz was a locality which no longer exists, near Camurac and not far from Montaillou; it was in the present department of Aude.
1 i. 148. The priest addresses Alazaïs Fauré as ‘tu’, while she addresses him as ‘vous’. This is a sign of difference in social status, but it should not be exaggerated and may also be interpreted as due to differentiation between the sexes.
2 i.216–50; i.279, 302–06, 329 and passim.
3 For an excellent passage on the priest’s ‘affair’ with Mengarde Buscailh, see i.491.
1 See above, Chapter III; i.408.
1 i.255. See also, on Pierre Clergue’s non-violence as a lover, i.302 and ii.26.
1 Fabrisse, married to Rives and the mother of Grazide, was the bastard daughter of Guillaume Clergue, the brother of Pierre Clergue’s father (i.302).
1 Breviaire d’amour, quoted by R. Nelli (1963), p. 65; and Flamenca, R. Nelli (1963), p. 173.
2 i.303. The same idea is to be found in the poets of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
1 i.215–16. Dalou was a village between Foix and Pamiers on the right bank of the Ariège.
2 See below, Chapters XVIII and XIX; ii.305.
1 Macrabru in R. Nelli (1963), p. 109.
2 i.257. See also Chapter XX below for the magic philtres which Béatrice prepared for her daughters and their children.
1 i.237. See also i.233. On the network of Béatrice’s feminine friendships, see below Chapter XVI.
2 i.221. The wife of a notary in Ax really did run away to Lombardy at about this time, for reasons which were perhaps sentimental as well as heretical (i.290).
1 See R. Nelli (1963), p. 154.
2 See M. Lazar (1964), p. 219.
1 Marcabru, quoted by R. Nelli (1963), p. 115, n. 21.
2 R. Nelli (1963), p. 195.
3 i.226, 244. The affair took place around 1299–1301 (Béatrice left Montaillou shortly after 1300: ii.291). In 1305 (i.232), Béatrice was still married to her second husband, whom she had married shortly after 1300 (ibid.)
1 A s’en rompre les braies: Raimbaut d’Orange and Guillaume d’Aquitaine, quoted by M. Lazar (1964), pp. 129 and 143.
2 Béatrice had two daughters known to us from her second marriage, born 1303–04 and 1305–06.