Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 116
my person and my wife and children in Gods handsthan do hurt to so much people. In 1238 the king was profoundly shocked by the newsthat the crown of thorns was a forfeited pledge at Venicefor an unpaid loan advanced by some Venetian merchantsto the Emperor Baldwin of Constantinople. Louis paid… … SAINT LOUIS • 69 carried the sacred treasure enclosed in three caskets, one ofwood, one of silver and one of gold, to Paris. The pro-cession took eight days to reach the city, and so great werethe multitudes who thronged to see it, that a large platformwas raised in a field outside the walls, from…
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