In Search of a ‘Just and Lasting Peace

One scarcely, or rather never, sees heroes without ambition. This noble passion (as those who flatter them call it) is the principle of all their great actions, the primum mobile of all their endeavours and to which all else usually yields. The one whose history I begin is of a completely different character ... He conducted numerous armies abroad, he performed marvels of valour, but the desire of his own glory had no part in all that ... His religion, his zeal for the glory of God and for the good of his state took the place in his person of the most passionate emotions of ambition, to act not as a profane hero but as a Christian hero. Pere Daniel on Louis IX in his Histoire de France

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