Excerpt from Social France at the Time of Philip Augustus

Earthquakes, especially, dismayed them. Anjou was Shaken in 1207, Normandy, in 1214, Gascony, in 1223. The tremor of March 3, 1206, was felt at the same time in Burgundy and Limousin. According to the monk of saint-martial, the shocks came in the middle of the night. Monks, saying their offices in the choir, took to ¿ight, and laymen leaped from their beds, it was observed that even the birds trembled with fear and that water-courses were more boisterous than usual, and, to appease an irate Heaven, an extraordinary procession was arranged at Limoges.

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