David Frum @davidfrum
Something I learned today: The oft-told story that Louis IX of France paid 135,000 livres for a fake Crown of Thorns - 4x the price of the Sainte Chapelle that housed it - is false, a misreading of a manuscript. Louis still got cheated, but not so wildly https://t.co/6jVvgSMbk5 — PolitiTweet.org