leurs oiseaux , their falcons

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1. 30. une feuille blanche. This singular proceeding may hâve been either mere superstition, or a clumsy device to enable Gregory to betray Merowig, shielding himself from blâme by assuming the name of St Martin. Pope Stephen wrote to the Franks in 755 A.D. a letter purporting to corne from St Peter.