This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... He walked the next day with his son Peter, both barefooted, to Notre Dame; Philip, the future monarch, declining this act of humility. The king took leave of his queen at Vincennes, and proceeded by easy journeys to Aigues Mortes. Owing to the retard of the Genoese galleys, he did not sail till the 1st of July. His ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... He walked the next day with his son Peter, both barefooted, to Notre Dame; Philip, the future monarch, declining this act of humility. The king took leave of his queen at Vincennes, and proceeded by easy journeys to Aigues Mortes. Owing to the retard of the Genoese galleys, he did not sail till the 1st of July. His brother the Count of Poitou, his sonin-law the King of Navarre, and his other barons, joined him at Cagliari. There was held a council, whither the expedition should proceed. It was at first intended for Egypt. But St. Louis had been privately urged by his brother Charles of Anjou to land at Tunis, on the representation that the king of that country would easily be persuaded to turn Christian, and aid in the prosecution of the crusades. The truth was that some of the Mahommedan princes of the coast had become tributary to Aragon. Peter of Aragon had deposed a king of Tunis for refusing this tribute, and placed his brother on the throne. This ejected prince had probably recourse to Charles of Anjou, who, by the French expedition, flung the first provocation to his future rival, the King of Aragon. The French barons who accompanied St. Louis infinitely preferred landing in Africa, which was comparatively near, to a lengthened voyage to the Holy Land. The fleet therefore sailed for the Bay of Tunis, and the king landed on an island separated from the shore by a narrow strait. Here he awaited tidings of the answer of the Sultan of Tunis, who, for a reply, decapitated all the Christians he could lay his hands on. The French therefore proceeded to the main land, and Chap. occupied, not Tunis, but the ruins of Carthage, about a VL league distant, in the midst of which was a castle of no great strength. Here the good king rested, awaiting, as it was sup...
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