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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis issued an emphatic defense of that city’s statue of King ... IX, including his charitable work with the poor and his reforms to France ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

Margaret of Provence and Louis IX of France were married for 36 years before Louis IX of ... The new queen's religious devotion made her a well suited partner for the king. He enjoyed her company, and ...

Such a conviction has historical parallels—the thirteenth century had its own version of the ombudsman, the enquêteurs, who were instituted by the King himself. In 1247 Louis IX of France created ...

The crown was acquired by King Louis IX of France in Constantinople in 1239 for 135,000 livres - nearly half France's annual expenditure at the time. Initially kept at the Sainte-Chapelle ...

The occasion of his liberty was the joyous passage through Meung of the new King, Louis XI, whose reign was to change the France in which Villon had pursued his rogue’s career out of all recognition.

Two of the most truly Parisian feeling spots to enjoy on a trip to Paris include the two petite islands in the River Seine. Île de la Cité and Île St-Louis are steeped in history and include some ...

Built in 1864 by the Capuchin missionaries, it was named in honor of King Louis IX of France; a notable feature is the holy mass cited in French. It was the first monument to be restored after the ...