Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 53
s of the earth to perish ? Nor was their ideal of kingship any loftier. Their kingdomwas not a trust, but a possession to be divided among theirheirs, and the jealousy and strife excited by the repeatedpartition among sons, make the history of the Merovingian dynasty a tale of cruelty and treachery… … THE MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY 19 people of France which admirably symbolises the fateof the dynasty. One night as Childeric, father of Clovis,lay by the side of Basine, his wife, she awoke him andsaid, Arise, O king, look in the courtyard of thy dwell-ing and tell thy servant what thou shalt see.…
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