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Show wmmmmmmmmmm 'TouistTiITgood. THE FnENCH KINO WHOSE NAMB A CITY UBAFIS Ilia Too rjDeneeeaaful 1 ixdltln. In llrlte tha MnUml from I aleatlne The DUIrlljntli.u ol Ilia lloaea 11.14 AfTi-ftlon. ol IIU leui.l. (Ft. Urnls Letter ) When I'lcrro lAcletlo Mrmheste established es-tablished on the bonks (if the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, In 1701 the trailing (mat which has since grown Into the Itn-iHirtant Itn-iHirtant city of H I-eiuls lie gave It n name which hotels nn honoreil plseo n French history lmlvl no nion-nrch nion-nrch over illil more for ula eople than llxiula IX illil fur I'rnncc Horn In ISIS, he learned from lil mother (Jut-en Illancho of c atttle, thoio qualities which made him what lio became Ilia father illeil when he was 11 yearn old mid ilnrlne the ten nu At jmii elm uuu iiiiiiiik HIP leu Venn that clapucd before he lieiaine of age hli mother relgnel as regent lor him Kven when at 21 ho as-sumeel as-sumeel the relna of government, mi ureal waa hla mothcr'a Inllmnre ner nlrn that she remained Ills ehlef counselor. coun-selor. Ho laid wlso plana for Hit In-tornal In-tornal Improvement of hla dominion but these were Interfered with by hla crusaders In 12l, Jerusalem was taken by A Savare AiUtln llortle. from western Turkey, the Christiana In tho city nnd throughout I'alestlno were tnaasicrod, and, as a consequence, the seventh crusade waa proclaimed In 1245 Ixmla had already taken tho crusaders' cru-saders' low during nn Illness, and nt once. prepared to lead n formidable, army against tho Moslems Over tun years were pound In preparations, nnd In August 1218, after having nettled tho nffnlrs of tho kingdom nnd appointed ap-pointed his mother regent ho sailed with a great llret, bearing an army of nearly CO 000 men Tho rcnilczious was Cyprus Hero I.ouls arrived In a few weeks, nnd remained nearly n )ear completing his preparations In June, 1219, he sailed from Cyprus to Invndo Hgypt, considering the Valley of tha Nllo tho key to tha whole- eastern east-ern situation IHmlctta was taken without serious resistance, but Instead pf ndnnclng at onco Ixiuls united for 11 vu months, until relnforrcmentii should arrive This deity Inaxeusabla from a military point of Wen gao tho sultan of Kg)pt time to collect n considerable nrmy nnd tho Inundation of tho Nllo enmn on still further delaying de-laying nnd hampering tho Trench , KINO 1,01 IS IX Their adnnco wns at first rewarded by a victory but the Kgyptlans rallying rally-ing In force cut off retreat so that Ijuli, with 30 000 men, mis compelled to surrender Ho remained u prisoner prison-er mors than u month, wis subjected to gross Indignities by his captors, una compelled to witness the massacre of nick and woundul frenchmen by tho barbarous Moslems, nnd finally to ransom himself and Ills nrmy by tho riayment of 400000 Hires Jlor. Ill lurk Krotn Damletla lie sailed to Aero with less than 0,000 men, the poor remnant of tho arm) ha had taken from Franco on this unfortunate, expedition ex-pedition Nearly four yours were iaed In fruitless negotiations nnd almost hopeless uniting for the arrival of reinforcements and treasure Tho l former noicr came an Immenso sum of monoy sent to him wns hut by tho .foundering of the ship Queen Illancho herself died In 126., nnd over two years later tho king returned with two f or three ships and less than M0 men It Is u remarkable fact that although line government of Trance was wlth-lout wlth-lout a head from the death of the queen mother until the king's return n period pe-riod of two and a half )ears there wis jno disorder, not even the most ambitious ambi-tious noble attempting to tako adjutage adju-tage of tho situation Trom 12St until 1270 tho king devoted his tlmo to tho Improvement of his kingdom, and dur-'Ing dur-'Ing this period mort was dono than .ever before to ameliorate tho condition of the Trench people In 12o8 he began be-gan to prepare for n second crusading icxpedltlon. and in the summer of 1270 he embarked, with an nrmy about equal In slio to that which had perished per-ished In I.'gypt, to undertake tho con-I con-I quest of Tunis The arm was land- i ed at Carthage formed a enmp, an I then again there enmo n fatal delay ,of flvo months Disease broko out i among tho troops n pestilence similar rto the plnguo appeared and the king was ono of tho victims He died August Au-gust 25 1270, and the miserable remnant rem-nant of the army without hating 'I fought n battle or oven a skirmish was taken back to .Trance by Louis' , ion and successor I'hlllp III IIU lli.tr Hilled In "In. The art of embalming had beeu lost, to the king's body was boiled In wine to separate the flesh from the bones The flesh and the viscera were taken to Hlclly and deposited In the Abbir I church of Monte-Heal The Inner and the heart were carried to Trance nnd deposited In the Church of 8t Denis In 1197 he was canonised by Pope llonlfaen VIII I'hlllp the Talr, the grandson of the saint was then reigning reign-ing In Trancn nnd as many churches made application for n relle of the saintly king I'hlllp authorised n partial par-tial dispersion of the bones of IahiIs A rib was given to Notre Dime the skull wns placed In the Holy Chapel nt I'nrls and other bones were deposited depos-ited elsewhere Ills mllltar) career wns n failure, livery Important operation lie undertook under-took proved unsuccessful from nu apparent ap-parent Inability to appreciate the alue of time as a factor In war He wasted a year at Cyprus half that time nt Dsmleltn nnd another half enr at Tunis Tu-nis the delay In inch cose being re sponsible for the disorganization nnd ruin of his nrmy and the failure that ensued In those days tho reputation of n king depended almost entirely on his succcm ns n soldier, nnd no more nt Biu-ven (in it ituituer, null nil uiiiiu striking evidence csn be found of the slurdlness of character possessed by Ixitlls than the fact that ho relnlned his hold upon the nfrcctlons of his poo-plo poo-plo nnd his Influence In affairs of state after so terrible n failure as that of his first crusade An explanation may possibly be found In the man) laws he canned to be enacted for tho Improve mem of the condition of the matses The common iicople of Trance pros pered during the reign of this good king ns neer biforc, Trnnce had peace wlillo the rest of Hiiropn was rent with civil strife |