Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . great became his renown that Pope Urban requested him to preach in favour of theCrusades, which just then were moving all thehearts of Europe. The new apostle met with anastonishing success. He was soon surrounded bycrowds of men and women, good and bad, of everyage and degree, who left all to follow him. At thehead of this vast multitude, which kept increasingevery day, the preacher wandered through townand country until his flock of converts became un-manageable. He had started for the Holy Land;hi
Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . great became his renown that Pope Urban requested him to preach in favour of theCrusades, which just then were moving all thehearts of Europe. The new apostle met with anastonishing success. He was soon surrounded bycrowds of men and women, good and bad, of everyage and degree, who left all to follow him. At thehead of this vast multitude, which kept increasingevery day, the preacher wandered through townand country until his flock of converts became un-manageable. He had started for the Holy Land;his charity was compelled to begin nearer home,and at last in this valley he had to stop and makesome provision for his strange and ill-assorted com-pany. The contrasts have begun already, thesevoyagers for Palestine settle by the Loire; such wasthe strange beginning of the famous institutionthat was to shelter the children of kings beneath itsroof, and to become famous throughout the lengthand breadth of Europe. ,<- ; \U \\i i r-he OX Ibbeij iSlimch at hontcvrault. c/ontevtaidt 107 The queer pilgrimage had ceased by a springwhere tradition still remembers the habitation ofthe robber Evrault, whose stronghold with its coni-cal roof and lantern is still recommended to thewonder of the credulous. The place had a badreputation, and the owners of the ground found thepious task an easy one of giving up a site to the newcolony. Help of more land, of food and clothing,poured in from all sides. The rough clay huts anddividing trenches of the first days of necessity beganto give way to more substantial buildings; DAr-brissel began to draw up rules for his association. These rules were absolutely different from any-thing that had been heard of before in such a con-nection. At Poitiers or at Lucca there may havebeen a monastery ruled by an abbess, but neverwas the principle of the superiority of woman sodaringly asserted as at Fontevrault. What was themotive of DArbrissel in his plans i
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