. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. CLOVIS, the first Christian King of theFranks, was an ambitious and powerfulmonarch. His name was properly writtenChlodwig, which was shortened to Ludwig,the German form, and finally softened toLouis, the present French form. He wasa son of King Childeric and his queen,Basina, and was born about 466 TheFranks were then pagans, and Clovis waseducated as an idolater. In 481 hesucceeded his father, who reigned over theSalian tribe. That kingdom was then lim-ited to the island of the Batavians, or themar
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. CLOVIS, the first Christian King of theFranks, was an ambitious and powerfulmonarch. His name was properly writtenChlodwig, which was shortened to Ludwig,the German form, and finally softened toLouis, the present French form. He wasa son of King Childeric and his queen,Basina, and was born about 466 TheFranks were then pagans, and Clovis waseducated as an idolater. In 481 hesucceeded his father, who reigned over theSalian tribe. That kingdom was then lim-ited to the island of the Batavians, or themarshes at the mouth of the Rhine, withthe ancient dioceses of Tournay and Clovis began his career of con-quest, he had neither money in his treasurynor grain and wine in his magazines. Inthe primitive style described by Homer,fifteen hundred years earlier, after each suc-cessful battle or expedition, the spoils wereaccumulated in a common mass, and everysoldier received his proper share. Himself a barbarian, Clovisyet taught his barbarous subjects to acknowledge the adva
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