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PART I--AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.

CHAPTER.

I. AMAEL AND VORTIGERN. 3

II. THE COURTYARD OF THE PALACE. 18

III. IN THE GALLERIES OF THE PALACE. 24

IV. CHARLEMAGNE. 29

V. THE PALATINE SCHOOL. 40

VI. THE BISHOP OF LIMBURG. 44

VII. TO THE HUNT. 54

VIII. THE FOREST OF OPPENHEIM. 58

IX. AT THE MORT. 71

X. EMPEROR AND HOSTAGE. 77

XI. FRANK AND BRETON. 88

PART II--THE CONQUEST OF BRITTANY.

I. IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS. 107

II. THE BRETON CHIEF. 112

III. ABBOT AND BRETON. 120

IV. THE DEFILE OF GLEN-CLAN. 132

V. THE MARSH OF PEULVEN. 139

VI. THE FOREST OF CARDIK. 146

VII. THE MOOR OF KENNOR. 151

VIII. THE VALLEY OF LOKFERN. 156

EPILOGUE. 159

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

The Age of Charlemagne is the watershed of the history of the present
era. The rough barbarian flood that poured over Western Europe reaches
in that age a turning point of which Charlemagne is eminently the
incarnation. The primitive physical features of the barbarian begin to
be blunted, or toned down by a new force that has lain latent in him,
but that only then begins to step into activity--the spiritual, the
intellectual powers. The Age of Charlemagne is the age of the first
conflict between the intellectual and the brute in the principal
branches of the races that occupied Europe. The conflict raged on a
national scale, and it raged in each particular individual. The colossal
stature, physical and mental, of Charlemagne himself typifies the epoch.
Brute instincts of the most primitive and savage, intellectual
aspirations of the loftiest are intermingled, each contends for
supremacy--and alternately wins it, in the monarch, in his court and in
his people.

_The Carlovingian Coins; or, The Daughters of Charlemagne_ is the ninth
of the brilliant series of historical novels written by Eugene Sue under
the title, _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian
Family Across the Ages_. The age and its people are portrayed in a
charming and chaste narrative, that is fittingly and artistically
brought to a clo