p.
247-260) betrays his partiality.

* Note: This point has been contested; but Mr.Hallam and Monsieur Sismondl concur with Gibbon.

See Middle Ages, iii.

330, Histoire de Francais, tom.ii.p.318.The sensible observations of the latter are quoted in the Quarterly Review, vol.
xlviii.p.451.Fleury, I may add, quotes from Mabillon a remarkable evidence that Charlemagne "had a mark to himself like an honest, plain-dealing man." Ibid .-- M.] [Footnote 103: See Gaillard, tom.iii.p.

138-176, and Schmidt, tom.
ii.p.