[Footnote 104: M. Gaillard (tom. iii. p. 372) fixes the true
stature of Charlemagne (see a Dissertation of Marquard
Freher ad calcem Eginhart, p. 220, &c.) at five feet nine
inches of French, about six feet one inch and a fourth
English, measure. The romance writers have increased it to
eight feet, and the giant was endowed with matchless
strength and appetite: at a single stroke of his good sword
Joyeuse, he cut asunder a horseman and his horse; at a
single repast, he devoured a goose, two fowls, a quarter of
mutton, &c.]