In which sick brain could be born the idea that, where failed the men, the children could succeed? The movement seems to have taken almost blow and without dialogue in France, in Italy, on the edges of the Rhine.

A monk cistercian, Albéric of the Three-Fountains, of an abbey close to the Châlons-on-Marne, left us into 1241 an account of the French attempt.

Etienne, a young shepherd of a village tourangeau, believed himself selected by God to lead to the holy war the youth of the country. A kind of is delirious mystical seized the children all the mediums, rich person and the poor. It came from there thirty thousand since the age eight years, and those eight years involved the teenagers. It was as if Jesus-Christ called the Help.
The parents let make, subjugated by the mysterious power of the general dash.
They descended the valley from the Rhone by singing, carrying crosses, smallest on the shoulders of the elder ones. This army the innocent ones reached Marseilles.
There, two warned ship-owners, Hugues de Fer and Guillaume Pig, names which one would say invented by the devil, embarked them free for Palestine on seven vessels of which two sank. The five others moved on Bougie and Alexandria. The whole was sold to merchants of slaves. Some of these victims thrown into a panic by the fear succeeded in escaping, much perished. The others were used of a way or other for the whims of their Masters.
And, at the bottom of harems one heard sometimes melancholic persons French songs.