More than 700 years have passed, and yet the trial of the Order of the Templar, launched at the instigation of King Philip the Fair in 1307, continues to fascinate. Sensing a public success, the National Archives are exhibiting, for four months, the mythical interrogation scroll of the Templars, which brought the inquisitor Guillaume de Nogaret face to face with 138 Templars from Paris. This major archive, which was part of the Treasury of Charters, is exhibited in its simplest form, under a glass case, with some explanations. It allows you to meet a treasure that rarely comes out, and will then go back to the shade for at least three years.
22 metres long, made up of 44 sheets of goatskin sewn and barely yellowed by the centuries, the scroll transcribes line by line the trial and confessions of the knights. Today, the neat script could be read, if it were not Gothic and in Latin, two pitfalls for those who are not paleographers. Thanks to some excerpts...
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