Louis IX of France forming a library. He was a patron of the arts and reading and contemplation became his whole life, he began to read the scriptures and the fathers, especially Saint Augustine and had manuscripts copied and a library was formed. Louis IX, 1214 – 1270, aka Saint Louis or Louis the Saint. King of France, 1226 - 1270. From Histoire de France, published 1855.

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