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 St.

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 ...

So when the French king Louis IX, later Saint Louis, minted a large silver coin called a gros tournois, it became fashionable for prosperous people to turn them into brooches. "Most of the coin ...