1. In this chapter I shall draw my quotations from the
Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France, Paris,
1738-1767, in eleven volumes in folio. By the labour of Dom
Bouquet and the other Benedictines, all the original
testimonies, as far as A.D. 1060, are disposed in
chronological order, and illustrated with learned notes.
Such a national work, which will be continued to the year
1500, might provoke our emulation.