Identifier: storyhistoryoffr01bonn (find matches)
Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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our own day, hada fancy to prove that they sprang from very ancient line-age indeed. But there is no doubt of the reality of Clovis, or Chlodo-veg as some of the old books call him. You may feel quitesure that he came paddling over the Rhine into Gaul atthe head of a body of Franks in or about the year of OurLord four hundred and eighty-one. The people were veryglad to see him—all except the tax-gatherers. With thesehe had a short, sharp way of dealing. When a tax-gatherer^ot in his way, he sent one of his captains to argue with 481-511) 5 him ; and it was noticed that after the argument the tax-gatherer had nothing more to say. The Frank had per-suaded him with his axe. A few friends of Rome tried in a feeble way tooppose the march of the Franks, but Clovis per-suaded them, too, with pike and sword ; and thepoor people came out of their hiding-places, andwrung the hands of the strangers, and bade them welcome. Nothing that Clo-vis could do to them couldbe worse than the oppression
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CLOYIS, KING OF THE FRAIiKS 6 (481-511 they had endured from the Romans. They made no ob-jection when Clovis proclaimed himself master of townafter town, valley after valley, province after province.So, after a time, he came to rule over a larger country thanany Gaulish chief had ever swayed—and it was a co.aitrywhich, now that the people ventured to go to work oncemore on their farms, was worth governing. He calliod him-self King of the Franks, but I think you had better remem-ber him by the title which fits him best — that of theFirst King of France. In larger books than this you will find that ti>fi Gaulssubmitted to Clovis because of his religion. At that time,in Gaul the old, cruel religion of the Druids, who met ingroves, and, I am afraid, sacrificed children on stone altars,had died out, except in the northwestern corner of thecountry. In the place of it, four religions existed. TheFranks had a weird, mystical religion, with gods liamedThor and Odin and a goddess named F

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