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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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se of injustice. This he even ex-tended to c ical matters; a bold step for one so devoted to the Church. T- ■ - ■•^- ■■ ■ ■ omof dr ^^-- - -■ \\ --e, and a like spirit of equity, are known in a collected shape as the Louis. His enactment touching a; om the Church to thr prohibit!- • ■ ■ ^ - of mon- the w^r- 1 as a tton- aJ/lA^i do friilAL illiT b/iaHU .XI fclUOJi Yii none was litter to administer them y.»>«HMM HMJvuo oa>i » ^ften sat the , li ; , J His social re as fully attended to as his political reforms. He first ! o him : a public r 1 I • 1 ^ is Louis,■ry should be -A Is■ 1 :. and the ance for lie Sanc- Louis set the iiavv on a substantial foot 11, 1 1 ■-. 1 I. cal college called by his name. So scrupulou t inted a con- I •■-- I By a treaty in 1255, made with Henry HI.. 1 s of which Phi r of Hennas - thus acquiredact : tor in several quarrels, and er:i t_. » the E !Own 1 obtaint-a m return - ::ration ked to *pportii f exhibit- -TS, -lie
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ST. LOUIS 91 of crimes. Toward Jews and heretics he showed no mercy, issuing severe andunjust laws against them for the good of his soul. The duty of the historianis to record these failings of a noble nature as impartially as its beauties; but theevil must, in all fairness, be credited to the Church and system which taught, andnot to the believer who practised. In 1270 the affairs of the East again attracted the attention of Europe, andrecalled Louis to the fulfilment of his vow, which he had only postponed. TheGreeks had retaken the city of Constantinople from the French and VenetianCrusaders some years previously, yet the reconstitution of the Christian Empireof the East had not availed to check the aggressions of the Moslem in Palestine.Benocdar, the Sultan of Egypt, had already taken Caesarea and Jaffa ; and newsnow came that Antioch had fallen, 100,000 Christians having been massacred inthe siege. The seventh and last Crusade was at once set on foot by outragedEurope, and Louis

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