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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades
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[95] [Footnote 92: Read, if you can, the Life and Miracles of St.Louis, by the confessor of Queen Margaret, (p.

291--523.

Joinville, du Louvre.)] [Footnote 93: He believed all that mother church taught, (Joinville, p.
10,) but he cautioned Joinville against disputing with infidels.
"L'omme lay (said he in his old language) quand il ot medire de la loi Crestienne, ne doit pas deffendre la loi Crestienne ne mais que de l'espee, dequoi il doit donner parmi le ventre dedens, tant comme elle y peut entrer" (p.

12.)] [Footnote 94: I have two editions of Joinville, the one (Paris, 1668) most valuable for the observations of Ducange; the other (Paris, au Louvre, 1761) most precious for the pure and authentic text, a MS.

of which has been recently discovered.


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