[Footnote 26: Eginhart, de Vita Caroli Magni, c. ii. p. 13 -
78, edit. Schmink, Utrecht, 1711. Some modern critics
accuse the minister of Charlemagne of exaggerating the
weakness of the Merovingians; but the general outline is
just, and the French reader will forever repeat the
beautiful lines of Boileau's Lutrin.]