Memoirs of a Traveller [Calling Himself Duchillou] Now in Retirement, Written by Himself. Transl
by Louis Dutens (9781150273223)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: . 47. Posterity Of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was born in 742, proclaimed King of France in 768, crowned Emperor at Rome in 800, and died at Aix-la-Cha- pelle on the 28th of January 814. He left, at his death, only one legitimate son, Louis the Debonnair (who succeeded him), two daughters, abbesses, and seven natural children. He had two sons who died before him: Pepin le Bossu, who was banished to the Abbey of Pruyon, for having conspired against the life of his father (he died in 81O); and Charles, who was Viceroy of Eastern France, or part of Germany, and who died in 811 without issue. The last King of France of the race of Charlemagne, was Louis V., called the Idler; who died m 987, without children, at the age of twenty-five, after a reign of two years. After his death, the kingdom belonged of right to Charles of Outremer, uncle of Louis V., and son of Louis IV.: but that prince having rendered himself odious to the French, by his conduct and his alliancewith Otbo, King of Germany, the nobles considered him as a deserter, excluded him from the succession, and conferred the crown upon Hugh Capet, Duke of France, the chief of the third race. This same Charles (the son of Louis of Outremer), received the duchy of Lower Lorraine, comprehending Brabant, with a part of Upper Lorraine, from his cousin, Otho II. He wished to assert his rights to the crown of France against Hugh Capet; which occasioned a civil war that continued some years, and was at last terminated by the capture of Charles, in the city of Rheims, on the 2d of April 991. He was conducted as a prisoner to Orleans, where he died in the...

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