Victor Hugo was a lawyer and a novelist. His "estimate" is the product of no special competence.
Actual historians, like Henry Kamen and Edward Peters, did the historical research to show that Hugo's number was off by about 2 1/2 orders of magnitude. The real number was less than 15,000.
Is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" still in your Bible?
Victor Hugo, eh? Sheesh.
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Is “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” still in your Bible?
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Are the words purgatory, rosary beads, transubstantiation, pope and cardinal still in your Bible, because I can’t seem to find them in any other Bible.