[Footnote 98: For the ransom of St. Louis, a million of
byzants was asked and granted; but the sultan's generosity
reduced that sum to 800,000 byzants, which are valued by
Joinville at 400,000 French livres of his own time, and
expressed by Matthew Paris by 100,000 marks of silver,
(Ducange, Dissertation xx. sur Joinville.)]