sentences:  During the period after 1528, when Rabelais had been in charge of the monastic order from 1524–28, there was internecine war between the Catholics and the Protestants.The cathedral was destroyed in 1562 in the course of the Reformation and subsequent Wars of Religion.In 1589, Agrippa d'Aubigné, a Protestant, a scholar and a poet, became the bishop and fortified the cathedral with a watch tower.