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Excerpt from Tales From French History
Pepin, called by his historians Bref, or the Short, to distinguish him from his ancestor Pepin d'heristhal, was elevated upon a buckler, after the ancient custom of the Franks, and declared king of the nation, of which he had been long the effectual ruler. He became the parent of the Carlovingian, or second race of French kings, who, like the Merovingians, their predecessors, commenced their dynasty in glory and conquest, and declined into de generacy, sloth, and e'ffeminacy, until they were super seded by another royal family, as their ancestor succeeded Childeric. At this period, what had been the fragments of the Roman emplre, had been repeatedly conquered and divided by barbarians of different origin, but-yet, like the animal called a polypus, the severed parts showed a disposition to frame new combinations of government. Pepin'and his son Charles, who obtained the name of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, made great progress In erecting a new Western empire, differing widely from that which had formerly existed. Under the name and authority of the Romans, both in laws and 1nst1tut10ns, the more recent of which were in a great measure founded on those of the Franks, which we have since called the Feudal System.
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