Legend has it that treasure lies buried hereabouts, hidden away by a French buccaneer called Montbars the Exterminator.
There was a legendary French pirate called Montbars the Exterminator.
During their time at the royal court, they had introduced the so-called preparatory tortures, which were to sensitize the prisoners suspected of heresy, to the relativity of questions about faith, asked during the torture sessions proper, which few of the prisoners had survived, in any case.