A few months afterwards, on the 27th of November, 511, Clovis died at Paris, and was buried in the church of St.Peter and St.Paul, nowadays St.Genevieve, built by his wife Queen Clotilde, who survived him.
It was but right to make the reader intimately acquainted with that great barbarian who, with all his vices and all his crimes, brought about, or rather began, two great matters which have already endured through fourteen centuries, and still endure; for he founded the French monarchy and Christian France.

Such men and such facts have a right to be closely studied and set in a clear light by history.

Nothing similar will be seen for two centuries, under the descendants of Clovis, the Merovingians; amongst them will be encountered none but those personages whom death reduces to insignificance, whatever may have been their rank in the world, and of whom Virgil thus speaks to Dante:-- "Non ragionam di for, ma guarda e passa." "Waste we no words on them: one glance and pass thou on." Inferno, Canto III..