58. Under the Merovingian kings, Marseilles still imported
from the East, paper, wine, oil, linen, silk, precious
stones, spices, etc. The Gauls or Franks traded to Syria,
and the Syrians were established in Gaul. See M. de Guignes,
Mem. de l'Academie, tom. xxxvii. p. 471-475.