66. The paradox of P. Daniel, that the Franks never obtained
any permanent settlement on this side of the Rhine before
the time of Clovis, is refuted with much learning and good
sense by Mr. Biet, who has proved, by a chain of evidence,
their uninterrupted possession of Toxandria one hundred and
thirty years before the accession of Clovis. The
Dissertation of M. Biet was crowned by the Academy of
Soissons in the year 1736, and seems to have been justly
preferred to the discourse of his more celebrated
competitor, the Abbe le Boeuf, an antiquarian whose name was
happily expressive of his talents.