sur Joinville.)] [Footnote 99: The idea of the emirs to choose Louis for their sultan is seriously attested by Joinville, (p.

77, 78,) and does not appear to me so absurd as to M.de Voltaire, (Hist.

Generale, tom.ii.p.386, 387.) The Mamalukes themselves were strangers, rebels, and equals: they had felt his valor, they hoped his conversion; and such a motion, which was not seconded, might be made, perhaps by a secret Christian in their tumultuous assembly.

* Note: Wilken, vol.vii.p.

257, thinks the proposition could not have been made in earnest .-- M.] The memory of his defeat excited Louis, after sixteen years of wisdom and repose, to undertake the seventh and last of the crusades.