Fifteen years later, though it was still confined largely to the cities and towns, there were centers of it in every part of France except in Brittany.

The persecution at Paris only drove the heretics into hiding or banished them to carry their opinions broadcast over the land.

The movement swept from the north and east.

The propaganda was not the work of one class but of all save that of the great nobles.

It was not yet a social or class affair, but a purely intellectual and religious one.