"A grand deputation of Goths came to Paris to fetch the Frankish princess.

King Chilperic ordered several families in the fiscal domains to be seized and placed in cars.

As a great number of them wept and were not willing to go, he had them kept in prison that he might more easily force them to go away with his daughter.

It is said that several, in their despair, hung themselves, fearing to be taken from their parents.

Sons were separated from fathers, daughters from mothers, and all departed with deep groans and maledictions, and in Paris there reigned a desolation like that of Egypt.