Philip IV expels the Jews of France
July 1306
On a single morning, royal bailiffs knocked at every synagogue door. Around a hundred thousand Jews were arrested, their debts transferred to the crown, their houses and books auctioned. Philip needed cash for his Flemish wars. The expulsion, the second in a century after his grandfather's in 1182, showed how useful a scapegoat could be to royal finance.
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