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 . a body of police. Underhis sanction, also, his confessor, Robert de Sorbon, founded the famous theologi-cal college called by his name. So scrupulously just and honorable was Louis,that he appointed a commission to ascertain what restitution of territory should bemade to nations which had been mulcted by the conquests of his predecessors, andhe thus more than once sacrificed extensive possessions for the sake of a a treaty in 1255, m
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 . a body of police. Underhis sanction, also, his confessor, Robert de Sorbon, founded the famous theologi-cal college called by his name. So scrupulously just and honorable was Louis,that he appointed a commission to ascertain what restitution of territory should bemade to nations which had been mulcted by the conquests of his predecessors, andhe thus more than once sacrificed extensive possessions for the sake of a a treaty in 1255, made with Henry HI., Louis restored to the English crownthe provinces of which Philip Augustus had deprived it, and obtained in returnthe surrender of Henrys rights in Normandy and other fiefs. The reputationwhich Louis thus acquired among his fellow-monarchs led to his being asked toact as mediator in several quarrels, and gave him many opportunities of exhibit-ing his peaceful and loving policy. The mental blindness of which we have spoken led him to commit errors,which, if his misled conscience had not sanctioned them, would deserve the name. LOUIS IX. OPKNS THE OF FRANCE LUC OLIVIKK MERSOX
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