How could he hate the Jews and yet feel sick when they were attacked? Louis hated peasants, too, apparently, and yet he had no problem sitting beside Jeanne - hoisting her in the air and dancing even. Jacob tried to turn this over in his head, around and around, like the cartwheels beneath him. But after a while, he gave up. People were too strange to understand, he decided. They were like life. And also that cheese. Too many things at once. . Adam Gidwitz
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When Louis de Montfort was in Paris in 1438, he discovered that Jews were being attacked and killed by the mob. He decided to do something about it and called for an end to these attacks. Montfort’s plan was to get everyone to stop killing Jews, but he did not want this to be an excuse for the people to harm the country’s peasant population. So, to make sure all sides were happy, he ordered a meeting between his men and the peasants.

Because the peasants were given food and lodging, they sided with Louis to protect their friends who were being attacked. In this way, all sides agreed to stop killing each other and everything was fine for a while. In the end, however, Louis turned on the peasants because they had been too busy protecting their own interests to protect his Jewish friends from being attacked.

Once again, things became ugly.

Source: The Inquisitors Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children And Their Holy Dog

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