They were for the most part religious liberals and deists, rarely atheists, but that was enough to array the bishops, like monseigneur Pie of poitiers, against them.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
119, 129, 131 poitiers captured by Henry of Derby, ii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
The town was attacked in 1136, by the forces of Anjou, under the command of Geoffrey Plantagenet, husband of the Empress Maud, joined by those of William, Duke of poitiers; and the garrison, consisting of Bretons, seeing no hope of effectual resistance or of rescue, set fire to the place to the extreme mortification of the invaders, who, in the language of the chronicles of the times, "when they beheld the city and all its wealth a prey to the flames, waxed exceedingly wroth, at being deprived of the spoil; and grieved sorely for the loss of the booty which perished in the conflagration."
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner