The Rest Is History
523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)
Tom Holland
And it reflects a sense that the Merovingians themselves, as the generations have passed, as their power kind of bleeds away, have become mere shadows of Clovis, the founder of their dynasty. They've become kind of phantasms, what French scholars have always called fainéants, the do-nothing kings, kings who play no role in the functioning of the Frankish state.
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