A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 111.—King Louis IX. of of tlie fourteenth Library. (From Lacroix.) J Miiiia-Paris, 254 FEAyCE AND ENGLAND FROM TO 1272. a pro\dsional close, the peace of 1259 giving back to Henry south-French possessions of the Plantagenets as a French fief,and conclusively incorporating the others in the Capetian crown-domains. By gaining the hand of the heiress of Provence for hisbrother, Charles of Anjou, Louis paved the way for the future re-version of this important pro
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 111.—King Louis IX. of of tlie fourteenth Library. (From Lacroix.) J Miiiia-Paris, 254 FEAyCE AND ENGLAND FROM TO 1272. a pro\dsional close, the peace of 1259 giving back to Henry south-French possessions of the Plantagenets as a French fief,and conclusively incorporating the others in the Capetian crown-domains. By gaining the hand of the heiress of Provence for hisbrother, Charles of Anjou, Louis paved the way for the future re-version of this important province. The hereditary monarchy in. Fk;. 112. — Scenes from life at the French court in the thirteenth century. Minia-ture in a manuscript of the thirteenth century. (From Lacroix.) A minne-singer sent to Robert, Count of Artois, and brother of King Louis IX., by theDuke of Flanders and Brabant, recites the romance of Cl^omad^s before thecountess of Artois, Matilda of Brabant, and Blanche of Castile, queen of France. France now held sway over so great and, on the whole, so compactand well-unified a realm that the great crown-vassals were no longera menace to it. For now, with the Isle de France, Normandy, Ar-tois, Verniandois, Touraine, Maine, Berry, and Languedoc wereimmediately dependent on the king himself ; while members of theroyal house held sway in Burgundy, Brittany, Boulogne, Poitou,Auvergne, Toulouse, Anjou, Provence, Nevers, and Bourbon. This LOUIS IX. OF FRANCE. 255 enabled Louis gradually to abrogate feudal forms in the administra-tion, which passed into the hands of royal officials, — bailiffs andprovo
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