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The Crusaders embarked in the canal cut by S. Louis, and sailed through the lagoons before they reached the open Mediterranean. The most ancient maps show us Aigues Mortes bathed by one of those branches of the Rhone, now deserted, which go by the name of Rhones-morts.
A dead town The Rhones-morts Bars S. Louis and the Crusades How S. Louis acquired Aigues Mortes His canal The four littoral chains and lagoons The fortifications Unique for their date Original use of battlements Deserted state of the town Maguelonne How reached History of Maguelonne Cathedral The Bishops forge Saracen coins Second destruction of the place Inscription on door Bernard de Treviis His Romance of Pierre de Provence Provencal poetry not always immoral Present state of Maguelonne.
This occasions the delta to be striped with what are locally termed Rhones-morts, whereas a flowing branch is called a Rhone-vif. Moreover the stagnant masses of water left by floods are called Aigues Mortes Dead Waters; and it is precisely on such that the little fortified town I am now writing about, stands.
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