The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . Ishould have supposed that he had seen enough of suchdivisions. Of the four, one died soon after his father, and another,Gontran, got the Duchy of Burgundy, and lived therequietly. The other two are chiefly known as the husbandsof two of the worst women in history. The eldest, Sigebert, married a Spanish girl of greatbeauty and some education, named Brunehault. Her sis-ter had married Sigeberts brother Chilperic ; but Chil-peric one day met a lovely girl named Fredegonde, whofascin
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . Ishould have supposed that he had seen enough of suchdivisions. Of the four, one died soon after his father, and another,Gontran, got the Duchy of Burgundy, and lived therequietly. The other two are chiefly known as the husbandsof two of the worst women in history. The eldest, Sigebert, married a Spanish girl of greatbeauty and some education, named Brunehault. Her sis-ter had married Sigeberts brother Chilperic ; but Chil-peric one day met a lovely girl named Fredegonde, whofascinated him and cast over him a spell which he couldnot resist. She first made him strangle his wife in herbed ; then she married him. Brunehault persuaded her husband to avenge her sister,and war broke out betw^een the two brothers. It did notlast long. Two of Fredegondes men-at-arms gained ad-mission to Sigebert to deliver a message and stabbed himwith poisoned knives. Fredegonde, rejoicing over themurder, pushed on and caught Brunehault, whose chancesof life would have been slim if her beauty had been
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