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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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us union ; Clotildis became mother of a prince,who received baptism with the kings consent, and was named Ingomer. Thesubsequent death of this child, on whom Clovis had so firmly set his affections, in-spired him, notwithstanding the prayers and remonstrances of his affectionate andpious princess, with an aversion to the Christian religion. He was prevailed on,however, to suffer his second son to undergo the ceremony of baptism. He alsowas attacked by a severe indisposition, but the prayers of this pious woman wereheard and answered, the young prince restored to health, and the anxiety of hisfather dispelled. The conversion to Christianity of Clovis, soon after this, is thus related byhistorians: The Germans had commenced preparing for incursions into the do-minions of Clovis; he, being apprised of their intentions, hastened to impedetheir progress, and met them on the plains of Tolbiac, not far from Cologne,where a bloody battle was fought. Clovis, perceiving that the strength of his
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(>E.N£UVILLE PINXIT. CLOVIS PUNISHING A REBEL. CLOVIS THE FIRST 63 army was diminishing, lifted up his eyes to Heaven, and exclaimed, God of myQueen Clotildis, grant me victory, and I here vow to worship none other thanyou. He immediately rallied his yielding forces, again led the charge, piercedwith irresistible ardor the enemys battalions, and entirely put them to flight.He then followed them into Germany, where he dispersed the remains of thevanquished army, reduced to obedience a nation hitherto invincible, and com-pelled them to pay him an annual tribute. Faithful to his vow, he requested to be made acquainted with the mysteriesof the Christian religion ; and on Christmas-day, 496, received baptism at thechurch of St. Martin, in Paris, from Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, a prelateequally distinguished for his birth and piety. His sister Albofleda, and aboutthree thousand of his subjects, followed his example. An improbable legendprevails, that during the ceremony of the baptism

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