There is always some tipping point, an incitement so outrageous among the smaller but no less hideous acts, that sweeps people into a full-scale insurrection, Bruno said. But we must not romanticize, he said. What made the peasants blind with rage was not the treatment of Jacques and of the baby. Remember, Bruno said, that Cagots were categorically subhuman. The count’s wife, for her gender, was sub-man and a baby girl sub-baby. It was Loli that was the final straw. A fiefdom that could burn an innocent horse at the stake was a fiefdom worth destroying.
