“Prelates described Algiers as “a lair of pirates and of anti-Christian barbarism,’ populated by “stupid and degraded peoples, stultified by despotism and vice,”757 and ruled by “a government that had put itself beyond the law, [whose] extermination, humanely speaking, would be a benefit for society.”758 Conversely, they described the soldiers of the expeditionary army as the “sons” of Saint Louis, “new crusaders” endowed with “the heroism of Christian virtue” and designated by God to bring the blessings of Christianity to the “unfortunate inhabitants” of Algiers.”