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  2. Jean de Joinville - Wikipedia

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    Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' biography. He then put himself to the task of writing livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs (as he himself called it), today known as the Life of Saint Louis. Jeanne of Navarre died on 2 April ...

  3. Saint Louis (biography) - Wikipedia

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    Saint Louis is a 1996 biography of Louis IX of France by historian Jacques Le Goff. The book received positive reviews for its historical detail, and was awarded the 1996 Grand prix Gobert by the French Academy. It was also a best-seller. [2]

  4. History of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]

  5. Louis IX of France - Wikipedia

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    Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.Joinville was a close friend, confidant, and counselor to the king. He participated as a witness in the papal inquest into Louis's life that resulted in his canonization in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.

  6. Geoffrey of Beaulieu - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey accompanied King Louis IX on crusades to Tunis and Egypt. [3] The manuscript of The Life of Saint Louis, which he was ordered to write by Pope Gregory X, was conserved for several centuries in the library of the Dominican order in Évreux, before being published in 1617 with the work of Jean de Joinville.

  7. Master of cardinal de Bourbon - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal de Bourbon receiving the work on the life of Saint Louis and handing it to a Duchess of Bourbon below, f.3r. His style was studied in 1935 in a monograph devoted to one of his books of hours, the Un livre d'heures: manuscrit à l'usage de Mâcon, but no connection was made with his other works. [1]

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  9. Auguste Chouteau - Wikipedia

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    The first Catholic church in St. Louis is where Auguste Chouteau married Marie-Thérèse Cerre in 1786. After Laclède's death in 1778, Chouteau took over the business of trading, adding greatly to the family fortunes. [28] He quickly expanded the business to include agricultural properties, and banking, and owned an early grist mill in St. Louis.