Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
Should St. Louis take down the statue of its anti-Semitic namesake? Activists say yes.
King Louis IX of France, who reigned in the 1200s, burned the Talmud and ordered the expulsion of his Jewish subjects. (JTA) — On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in ...
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Louis IX, King of France
In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
Catholic archdiocese defends statue of King Louis IX, the namesake of St. Louis, who persecuted Jews
In its statement, the archdiocese explained why the Catholic Church canonized Louis IX, including his charitable work with the poor and his reforms to France’s judicial system. It did not ...
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On This Day in 1793, Revolutionaries Executed the King of France by Guillotine, a Deadly Machine They Saw as a Symbol of Equality
Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...