“Life of a king, life of a saint, life of a man. In this work, Jacques LeGoff, one of the truly great medieval historians of our times, magisterially plumbs the depths of the fundamental contradiction of Saint Louis: is it possible to be both a king and a saint? St. Louis lies at the intersection of
Saint Louis
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<p style="text-align: justify;text-indent:1.2em;"><font face="Georgia, sans-serif">Pendant presque mille quatre cents ans, des rois se sont succédé de manière quasiment ininterrompue sur le trône de France. Ils étaient issus de trois célèbres dynasties, les Mérovingiens, les Carolingien et les Capét
Medievalist [Bruce L. Venarde](https://www.pitt.edu/~bvenarde/bvcv.html) recommends "the well-regarded biographies of Louis by Jacques Legoff and of [Blanche by Lindy Grant](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=8504)". St. Thomas praised King St. Louis in his commentary on [Psalm 4