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522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)

138.902 - 157.621 Dominic Sandbrook

Charles, the illegitimate son of the elder Pepin, was content with the titles of Mayor or Duke of the Franks, but he deserved to become the father of a line of kings. That was Edward Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the most famous passages of historical prose ever written.

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