les Albigeois : the Albigenses, so named from tlie

district of Albi, where tliey were very numerous, seceded from the Roniau Catliolic church ; thereupon a crusade was begun against them in 1209, liundreds of thousands were inassacred, and the rest were delivered up to the courtîî of the Inquisition.

27. le grrand schisme d'Occident : the dissension in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1429, during which there were several popes at the same time, some at Rome and the others at Avignon.

29. Avignon, on the left bank of the Rhône, is now the capital of the department of Vaucluse. From 1309 to 1377 seven popes resided in this city. After its purchase by Pope Clément VI. in 1348, it remaiued in the possession of the Roman Church nntil 1791, when it was united to France.

32. le concile de Pise . . : the rival popes, Benedict XIII. of Avignon and Gregory XII. of Rome, were formally deposed by the Council of Pisa, and Cardinal Philargi, archbishop of Milan, was elected.