Note 099
The idea of the emirs to choose Louis for their sultan is seriously attested by Joinville, (p. 77, 78,) and does not appear to me so absurd as to M. de Voltaire, (Hist. Generale, tom. ii. p. 386, 387.) The Mamalukes themselves were strangers, rebels, and equals: they had felt his valor, they hoped his conversion; and such a motion, which was not seconded, might be made, perhaps by a secret Christian in their tumultuous assembly.

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Extra note by the Rev. H. H. Milman 1782(Written), 1845(Revised):
Wilken, vol. vii. p. 257, thinks the proposition could not have been made in earnest.

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 59