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Mr. Hoare burnished his legacy in a slew of memoirs, and late in life spent two decades in France, studying a medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars that he chronicled in a historical novel.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020

Any tourist visiting this region would find it hard to miss the ever-present signs and historical markers recounting the tragic tale of the Cathars.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2018

For their considerable pains, the Cathars were memorialized and celebrated as martyred religious rebels by a region of southern France that, eight centuries later, still promotes itself under their name: Pays Cathare.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2018

But in recent weeks, a debate has erupted across this region in newspapers, tourism offices, and in research conferences following an academic exhibition that explored a more modern-day heresy: The Cathars never existed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2018

Who has not heard of the Cathars or Albigenses of the Middle Ages?

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood