63. The Abbe Dubos (Histoire Critique, tom. i. p. 29-36) has
truly and agreeably represented the slow progress of these
studies; and he observes that Gregory of Tours was only once
printed before the year 1560. According to the complaint of
Heineccius (Opera, tom. iii. Sylloge iii. p. 248, etc.),
Germany received with indifference and contempt the codes of
barbaric laws which were published by Heroldus,
Lindebrogius, etc. At present those laws (as far as they
relate to Gaul), the history of Gregory of Tours, and all
the monuments of the Merovingian race, appear in a pure and
perfect state, in the first four volumes of the Historians
of France.