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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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enemy caught hisarmy in a pass of the Pyrenees, at Roncesvalles, rolledgreat stones and logs on them from the overhanging crags,and cut them off to a man. Not a Frank escaped, and theoverwhelming disaster so preyed upon Charlemagnesmind that he never returned to Spain. It was at Roncesvalles that he lost one of his best cap-tains, the famous Roland the paladin, whose storj^^ used tobe a favorite with the troubadour minstrels. Roland car-ried a sword of such extraordinary strength and keennessthat with one blow of it he clove a pass through the moun-tain range of the Pyrenees ; when he broke it at Ronces-valles, he seized his horn and blew a rescue call that washeard miles and miles away. So loud and so piercinglydid he blow his horn that he burst the veins in his neckin the effort and died in consequence. It was a pity, forhe was a good friend of the Church and a right valiantknight. When Charlemagne had crushed the Saxons, he ruledover a kingdom which comprised all of modern France,
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KOLAND THE PALADIN AT EONCESVALLES half of modern Germany, four-fifths of modern Italy, andall of modern Switzerland. On the strength of this vastempire he claimed to be the Emperor of the West and thesuccessor of the Caesars of Rome, and the pope crownedhim by that title. Though his proper title had been Kingof the Franks, he was a German like his father, and spokeGerman all his life. He lived in a German city, and hismost trusted friends were Germans. But he gathered round him in his palace at Aix - la-Chapelle men of education from all nations, and, first ofall modern monarchs, he encouraged learning. In his daythere was no learning outside the monasteries and con-verts ajid cathedrals. Nobles and soldiers thought it b$- 32 (771-814 neath them to read and write. Charlemagne himselflearned to read late in life, but he never could be taughtto write ; it was with effort that he trained his hand tosign his name. In his palace he established a school, withgreat scholars at its head, and

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