32/44 322--325,) who calls him by the corrupt name of _Redefrans_. 683, 684) has described the rival folly of the French and English who fought and fell at Massoura.] [Footnote 97: Savary, in his agreeable Letters sur L'Egypte, has given a description of Damietta, (tom.i.lettre xxiii.p. 274--290,) and a narrative of the exposition of St.Louis, (xxv.p. 306--350.)] [Footnote 98: For the ransom of St.Louis, a million of byzants was asked and granted; but the sultan's generosity reduced that sum to 800,000 byzants, which are valued by Joinville at 400,000 French livres of his own time, and expressed by Matthew Paris by 100,000 marks of silver, (Ducange, Dissertation xx. |