. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. ondebald and restored him td his dominions. 20 HISTORY OF FRANCE. 8. Clovis next resolved to seize on the territoiies of Ala-ric, king of the Visigoths; he covered his designs under themask of religion, continually exclaiming against the horridimpiety of suffering Arians to reign in Gaul, for the Visigothsliad adopted that heresy. Though Alaric was no persecutor,the Catholic clergy in his dominions favoured the enterprise of Clovis, and afforded one of the earliest instancesp. of ecclesiastical interference in
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. ondebald and restored him td his dominions. 20 HISTORY OF FRANCE. 8. Clovis next resolved to seize on the territoiies of Ala-ric, king of the Visigoths; he covered his designs under themask of religion, continually exclaiming against the horridimpiety of suffering Arians to reign in Gaul, for the Visigothsliad adopted that heresy. Though Alaric was no persecutor,the Catholic clergy in his dominions favoured the enterprise of Clovis, and afforded one of the earliest instancesp. of ecclesiastical interference in the affairs of nations. At the battle of Vouille, near Poictiers, Clovis crownedthe wishes of his party by a decisive victory, in which theVisigoths were totally overthrown and their sovereign Alaricslain. 9. Theodoric, alarmed at the progress of the Gauls,sent an army across the Alps, which checked the victoriouscareer of Clovis, and inflicted on him a severe defeat nearAries. In consequence of this, Provence and part of Aqui-tain became subject to the Gothic monarchs of Clovis. 10. Clovis dishonoured the latter part of his reign by atrocious acts of treachery and cruelty to his own relations, whom he stripped of their possessions. At the same time he built churches and monasteries; doubtless from f*,? a persuasion that the Divine laws, like those of the barbarians, admitted a pecuniary compensation for every crime. THE FRANKS. 21 11. On death of Clovis his dominions were sharedamong his four sons, Thierry, Clodomir, Childebert, andClotaire; and the monarchy was unhappily dismemberedinto four kingdoms; Austrasia or Metz, Orleans, Paris, andSoissons. This division of necessity produced the mostbloody civil wars; the brothers became bitter enemiesT andperpetrated the most savage enormities. Clotaire and Chil-debert wrested their dominions from the sons of Clo-domir, two of whom Clotaire stabbed with his ownhand. They afterwards united in an invasion of Bur-gundy, i
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