A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . in-dicated by difference of language. For except in a few cantons onthe left of the Meuse, where German was spoken, the Romance tongueprevailed in the districts that were added to the western kingdom ;while the population of the territory that fell to Louis spoke German,except the people living on the upper Moselle and in the portions which were thus torn from their propernational environment strove to free themselves from this compulsoryunion with a foreign people, and to renew their co
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . in-dicated by difference of language. For except in a few cantons onthe left of the Meuse, where German was spoken, the Romance tongueprevailed in the districts that were added to the western kingdom ;while the population of the territory that fell to Louis spoke German,except the people living on the upper Moselle and in the portions which were thus torn from their propernational environment strove to free themselves from this compulsoryunion with a foreign people, and to renew their connection with thoseof their own race. Hence this treaty could not be regarded as final;and, indeed, it soon received the proper correction. At all events,the idea of maintaining, even in theory, the unity of the empirewas given up by the treaty of Meersen. No reservation whateverwas made in favor of the fiction that the empire remained one,and was ruled in common by the kings who governed parts of the day of this treaty the Carolingian empire, as such, ceasedto exist. <
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