People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-12


know those that are his"
The savage order was savagely
executed. Not a man or woman or
child was left alive. Not living
being was left in all the town. The
Infatuated soldiers, led on by fanati-
cal Priests, offered up TO the Lord
Jesus Christ a burnt offering than
which heather god never saw one
more diabolical-an offering which
violated every precept of His lips and
every lesson of His life.
The territory thus taken was given
by the Pope to Simon de Montfort,
the chief robber and murderer.
He did not live long to enjoy his
bloody spoils. AS he was riding un-
der the walls of Toulouse, which he
was besieging, stone shot from one
of the engines on the walls killed him
deader than Hector.
Philip Augustus showed that he
was in advance of his age by refusing
to take any hand in this butchery,
although the Pope stoutly urged him
to do so.
His son Louis VIII, however, who
was crowned in 1928, was a narrow
minded bigot, and he obeyed the
Pope's commands to lead another
army against the people of Langue-
doc (for some of the wretched
creatures still remained in their
country for the purpose of ''rooting
them out of the land"
One is glad to learn that fever at
tackled both the King and his army,
and although he took the town of
AVignou, he failed before Toulouse,
and, after losing great numbers of
his troops by disease, he himself did
the world the service of dying.
His son Louis X, boy of twelve,
now became King 1926, but as he
was SO young his mother, Queen
Blanche, became Regent, and ruled
France for nine years-ruled it well,
too, as women usually rule.
This is a notable fact in the history
of France, because by the fundamen-
tai law of the Kingdom, no woman
could reign. Sometimes they did it,
all the same.
The great feudal lords couldn't
bear the idea of petticoat rule, so
they leagued together in rebellion.
Queen Blanche was equal to the
crisis. She smashed the league and
crushed the rebellion.
Her son, known to History as
Saint Louis, deferred to her very
much even after he became of age,
and she remained virtual ruler of the
Kingdom as long as she lived.
Louis led an army to the East in
1913, in the vain attempt to drive
Mahomet's disciples out of Palestine.
Landing in Egypt, he met with moth
ing but misfortunes. The bulk of
his army was destroyed either by
sword or pestilence, and the King
himself was made prisoner by the
Infdels.
For the sum of 100000 they
agreed to release Louis and the rem
nant of his forces. The French
people Loyalty raised the money and
paid the ransom. So hard was it to
find that much coin in France that
they even had to melt down the sill
yer ratings around the tomb of
Richard the Lion-heart, at Rouen,
and turn them into money.
If ever a King was worth that
much money to his people, Louis
was he. Loving justice, prone to
mercy and to good works, filed with
that true spirit of Christianity which
sees a brother in every fellow man
no matter how humble, he was one
of the most remarkable monarchs
that ever reigned.
After sixteen years of prosperous
administration in France, he was
seized with another attack of the
Crusade fever, and in spite of the
urgent entreaties of his friends, he
raised an army and set out upon the
eighth and last Crusade.
He landed in Africa, on his way to
Palestine, and laid seige to Tunis.
Sickness soon began to destroy his
troops. 1t entered his own family,
and was fatal to one of his sons.
Then the King was stricken. Find
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