169. See Mascou, l. viii. c. 43, 44, 45. Except in a short
and suspicious line of the Chronicle of Prosper (in tom. i.
p. 638), the name of Pharamond is never mentioned before the
seventh century. The author of the Gesta Francorum (in tom.
ii. p. 543) suggests, probably enough, that the choice of
Pharamond, or at least of a king, was recommended to the
Franks by his father Marcomir, who was an exile in Tuscany.