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Louis IX. entered into negotiations with the abbot, and in exchange for certain royal domains near Sommiere, he was enabled to acquire the town of Aigues Mortes and all the zone of lagoons between it and the sea. At that time there existed but a single fortification the tower of Matafera erected about five centuries before as a place of refuge from the Saracens.
They sailed from Aigues Mortes, August 25th, 1248, and Joinville reflected that he could not imagine how a man in a state of mortal sin could ever put to sea, since he knew not, when he fell asleep at night, whether morning would not find him at the bottom of the sea.
After having seen Aigues Mortes, it was difficult to believe that any other place in Europe could suggest more vividly the days of military feudalism. St. Louis’s tiny city is, however, surpassed by Carcassonne!
He said to them, 'Do to me whatever God permits you; for without His will not one hair will fall from my head. And at these words all the demons vanished in a moment." Relation des Hurons, 1649, 20. Compare the long notice in Alegambe, Mortes Illustres, 644.
I know of no point on the littoral of the Rhone that offers so excellent an opportunity of observing the processes of that river than at Aigues Mortes. The river has, indeed, long ago deserted the branch that once discharged itself here, and it has left four lines behind it, making successive stages of advance, four bars, with their several backwaters, now converted into ponds or meres.
'No, said he, 'I will not land till I can do so on my own territory; I will not disembark till I arrive at Aigues Mortes. Everybody looked extremely disappointed. 'Seneschal, said Louis, turning to Joinville, 'what is your opinion?
Embarking at Dover on the 20th of August, 1270, the princes made all speed to hasten across France, so as to come up with Louis, who had set sail from Aigues Mortes on the 1st of July, with his three sons, his daughter Isabelle, and her husband the King of Navarre, and Isabelle the wife of his eldest son Philippe, as well as a gallant host of Crusaders.
It seems strange, though it is easily explained, that it was in London that he first got to know the Italian working classes. He was surprised and gladdened by the abundance of good elements which he found in them. 'It is the universal testimony, writes a high American authority, 'that no more faithful men have come among us. What was the cause of the slaughter of the Aigues Mortes?
The soil is so full of salt that it is impatient of tillage, and produces only such herbs as love the sea border. But its lagoons are alive with wild fowl, rose-coloured flamingoes, white gulls, and green metallic-throated ducks. And now for Maguelonne. I said that Aigues Mortes was a dead town, but Maguelonne was the ghost of one.
I shall always feel that I dreamed Aigues Mortes: that I fell asleep at night oh, but fell very far, so much farther than one usually falls even when one wakes with the sensation of dropping from a great height, that I went bumping down, down from century to century, until I touched earth in a strange, drear land, to find I had gone back in time about seven hundred years.
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