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... — Senlis, Île-de-France — April 14th, 1179
The spring air outside the royal residence in Senlis smelled of rain and thawed earth. Inside the candlelit halls of the Capetian palace, King Louis VII of France sat upon a high-backed oak chair, the papal letter open before him.
Louis's once-vibrant beard had turned to gray, and the old scars of the Second Crusade still lingered in his memory like a wound that never quite closed. He ran a thin finger across the edge of the parchment. ...
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