Louis, the eldest son of Philip Auguste, king of France, lies ill in bed, 1191, (1843). After a woodcut from the chronicles of St Denis written in the reign of Charles VI. The monks of St Denis bring their relics from the monastery to cure Louis, the eldest son of Philip Auguste, king of France. Louis had been left regent of the kingdom by his father, and had been seized with a desperate illness in 1191. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).
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