 This order was generally ignored, except in France, where the Jews were compelled under pain of death to surrender their Talmuds (March, 1240).Louis IX ordered four of the most distinguished rabbis of France—Yechiel of Paris, Moses of Coucy, Judah of Melun, and Samuel ben Solomon of Château-Thierry—to answer Donin in a public debate.The commission condemned the Talmud to be burned.