Note 307 — THE STORY OF THE "LONG-TAIL" MYTH
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According to another account, based on Joinville's narrative, Artois "was slain in the town, and his surcoat with the royal French lilies was exhibited to the Moslems as a proof that the King of the Franks had fallen".—Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages, p. 346.