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^ Interesting to notice how in the succession of Capetians able kings alternated with fainiants. To Philip I succeeds Louis the Fat, one of whose best-deserved titles was 'the wide-awake.' Louis VII came next [1137-80], with equal propriety dubbed 'the foolish.' It was he who lost above 50,000 men for naught in the second crusade, and who, by the divorce of his first queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, alienated that province with Poitou to England, whose soon-to-be King Henry II married Eleanor in si...x weeks from her divorce. Suger opposed this divorce in vain.
Philip Augustus, France's next monarch [1180-1223J, was one of her very greatest, a worthy successor of Charlemagne, but Louis VIII [i223-'26] was wholly insignificant, leaving ' no glory save that of having been the son of Philip Augustus, the husband of Blanche of Castile, and the father of St. Louis.' Philip the Bold [i270-'85] and Philip the Fair [1285- 1 3 14] show the same alternation, and so in some degree do the next pair, Louis X [1314-'!
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^ Interesting to notice how in the succession of Capetians able kings alternated with fainiants. To Philip I succeeds Louis the Fat, one of whose best-deserved titles was 'the wide-awake.' Louis VII came next [1137-80], with equal propriety dubbed 'the foolish.' It was he who lost above 50,000 men for naught in the second crusade, and who, by the divorce of his first queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, alienated that province with Poitou to England, whose soon-to-be King Henry II married Eleanor in si...x weeks from her divorce. Suger opposed this divorce in vain.
Philip Augustus, France's next monarch [1180-1223J, was one of her very greatest, a worthy successor of Charlemagne, but Louis VIII [i223-'26] was wholly insignificant, leaving ' no glory save that of having been the son of Philip Augustus, the husband of Blanche of Castile, and the father of St. Louis.' Philip the Bold [i270-'85] and Philip the Fair [1285- 1 3 14] show the same alternation, and so in some degree do the next pair, Louis X [1314-'!
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