Word: childebert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inner Paris, walled and fortified at the end of the 12th Century by Philippe Auguste, the powerful king who conquered Normandy and pushed his authority past feudal nobles to all the frontiers of his realm. The first church of St. Germain was built in the meadows by Childebert I in the 6th Century, when Paris was a Roman island in the river. In the Palais Royal the great Cardinal Richelieu died and Louis XIV shone like the sun. Across the river Margaret of Burgundy met the lovers whom she was said to have silenced by drowning...
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