Louis VII, like Conrad III before him, had to resist firm Byzantine pressure to cross at the Dardanelles rather than the Bosporos. Unlike Conrad, as he approached the city, he sent to offer full co-operation. There was some correspondence between the empress Eirene and queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. There was a party in the French army that wanted Louis to capture the city, in collaboration with Roger II, who was boldly attacking the area of Greece. To the later disappointment of Odo of Deuil (on behalf of all of the Latin faith), he refused to listen. A day's journey from Constantinople, he met his own ambassadors, and was fully briefed about recent events there