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Excerpt from The Deserts of Southern France, Vol. 2 of 2: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine A bad bringing - William X. - His death Eleanor marries Louis le Jeune - The Crusade Her conduct Quarrel with the King - Divorce Marries Henry of Anjou - Appearance of Henry H. - Character of Eleanor - The claim on Toulouse Becket at Cahors - Sons of Henry and Eleanor - The demon-blood of the Angevin House - Coronation of the young Henry - His pretensions - Rupture with his Father - Pilgrimage to Rocamadour - The Shrines of Rocamadour - Murder of Becket - Population of Guyenne - Richard made Duke - Renewed quarrels - Imprisonment of Eleanor - Troubles of Henry H. - Richard in Guyenne - Bertrand de Born - Conference at Caen - Another at Limoges - Revolt of the young Henry Character of young Henry - His death at Martel - Bertrand de Born's answer. Eleanor, daughter and heiress of William X., earl of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine, became the wife of Louis VII. of France, in 1137, and at once the vast mass of ancient Gaul was consolidated, or was ready for consolidation under one sceptre into a powerful monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.