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| Tango01 | 30 May 2018 10:21 p.m. PST |
"As Beachcombing plunges into his spring flu a short but sweet post on an extraordinary diplomatic mission that Louis IX (obit 1270) sent to the King of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. There is something necessarily surreal about any contacts between such distant realms, though this did not stop the two monarchs plotting. Indeed, there had already been contacts between the pair, for Guyuk Khan (obit 1248) had sent messengers to Louis offering to help him re-conquer Jerusalem…."
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