Excerpt from French Civilization: From Its Origins to the Close of the Middle AgesChapter VI. The franks. §l. The Great Invasions. 2. Bur gundians, Visigoths, and Franks in Gaul. 3. Conquest of Gaul by the Merovingians Clovis, Brunehaut. 4. Decadence of the Merovingians, Rise' of the Pepins. 5. Charlemagne: his Reign and Legend. 6. De cadence oi the Carolingians. 7. The Teutonic Invasions and the Feudal Aristocracy. 8. The Teutonic Interpretation of French History.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.