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524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

463.91 - 485.291 Dominic Sandbrook

And this is why Einhard models his biography on Suetonius' biography of Augustus. And there is something Roman about the approach that Charlemagne takes to the Saxons. So anyone who knows how the Romans behaved to the Germans, or indeed to the Gauls when they conquered them, they are murderous in their response to perceived slights or insults.

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