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What would have kept Clement V from instigating a popular revolt against Philip V?

Then it is very difficult for me to understand why the pope was not able to or would not consider the possibility to instigate a popular uprising against the King himself. A popular revolt was not an ...
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Was Dumas' Three Musketeers portraying 17th century France accurate? Alternatives?

Ghost writer Les Trois Mousquetaires was one of the series of works that Dumas wrote in collaboration with Auguste Maquet. The name of the latter was apparently omitted on the insistence of publisher, ...
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