une seule bataille ; near Poitiers

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1. 25. une puissance hérétique. The Goths were Arians, and Euric, King 466 — 485, had persecuted the Catholics.

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1. 1. la persécution de Dioclétien , a standing simile with ecclesiastical writers. The most severe persécution of Diocletian’s reign was in 303 A.D.

1. 14. la race indigène. In the time of Saint Augustine, the political geography of the world included only two great divisions, Romania and Barbaria ; the world in submission to the Roman unity, and the fluctuating, restless, erratic world of the Barbarians. See Aubertin’s Histoire de la langue et de la littérature Française au moyen âge, 1. I. p. 27.

1. 18. par des reliques de saint Martin. The Bénédictine Abbey of Marmoutier (L. Majus Monasterium) on the banks of the Loire, two kilométrés from Tours ; founded in 371 by Saint Martin.

DEUXIÈME RÉCIT. NOTES

1. 33. ces bas-fonds. The navigation of the Loire is still impeded by sandbanks and the swiftness of the current.

1. 23. Sweves ou Swabes. This tribe has given its name to Suabia in S. Germany.

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1. 12. Tolbiac, now Zülpich. The battle alluded to here, fought in 496, was the cause of the conversion of Chlodowig to Christianity.