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THE

HISTORY OF FRANCE.

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Gaul reduced under subjection to the Romans about Fifty

Years previous to the Birth of Christ

Receives from them the Advantages of Political Union

Christianity and Municipal Institutions

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Confederacy of the Franks and Alemanni; first men-

tioned in the time of Probus ; driven back by Julian

Gaul overrun by Barbariáns

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The Goths and Burgundians more civilised than the

Franks; their form of Government

Clovis, the Founder of theFrench Monarchy, defeats Sya-

grius the Provincial Governor of the Soissonnois, and

takes possession of his Territory and Capital

Marries Clotilda, a Burgundian Princess; becomes in-

structed in the Rites and Religion of the Christians, and

is baptized, with the greater number of his followers; re-

ceives from the Gaulish Clergy the Title of Most

Christian King

Comparison between Clovis and Constantine

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State of France during the Reigns of the Merovingians,

the Successors of Clovis

Pepin dethrones Childeric III., the last of the Merovin-

gians, and causes himself to be crowned King of the

Franks

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