Another monk noted that “many convents… differ little from public brothels.” According to Durant, Guy Jouenneaux, a papal emissary sent to inspect the Benedictine monasteries of France in 1503, described the monks as foul-mouthed gamblers and lechers who “live the life of Bacchanals” and “are more worldly than the mere worldling.… Were I minded to relate all those things that have come under my own eyes, I should make too long a tale of it.”
