Charlemagne and his scholars. Charlemagne aka Charles the Great, 742/747/748 - 814, numbered Charles I. King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Emperor of the Romans from 800. In 789 he established schools for the benefit of the poorer classes. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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