Identifier: greatfamous05hornuoft (find matches)
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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CHARTRAN HINXn THE EDUCATION OF LOUIS IX. ST. LOUIS 87 home. During their absence the crown was enabled to acquire a strength whichhad previously been spent in the repression of constant rebellions. And theneed of money for the expedition obliged many feudal lords to contract with thecommunes for the sale of lands or liberties. Such was the condition of France at the commencement of the thirteenthcentury. The balance of power, however, was only sustained by the activity ofall the parties concerned. The slightest wavering on the part of the crownwould be fatal, the least opportunity seized. A wise, sincere, and humane rulerwas needed to confirm and enlarge the vantage ground which law and order hadalready obtained ; and such a ruler rose in the person of Louis IX., who ascendedthe throne in 1226. His father, Louis VIIL, was a man of weak character, whose reign waschiefly signalized by the horrible persecution of the Protestant Albigenses ofProvence, which, under the sanction of Innocen

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