. Histoire de la France et de la Normandie, depuis les débuts jusqu'à la révolution de 1848. Cesvalles par le duc de Gascogne, et son neveu galant Rojand slain. Cet engagement de trilling a donné le thème d'un nombre de romances im-mense. 5. Pendant toute cette période, la guerre avec les Saxons con-tined : Pepin les avait obligés à rendre hommage, et assidesforcé à recevoir des missionnaires, mais ils pouvaient neigement pour payer l'un ou embrasser la religion de l'autre, dont l'esprit du pacifique était si contradictoire avec les humanpassions. Ayant massacré plusieurs des missionnaires, et engagé

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. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. cesvalles bythe duke of Gascony, and his gallant nephew Rojand slain.This trilling engagement has furnished the theme of an im-mense number of romances. 5. During all this period the war with the Saxons con-tinued : Pepin had compelled them to pay tribute, and besidesforced them to receive missionaries, but they could neitherbear to pay the one nor embrace the religion of the other, the pacific spirit of which was so contradictory to the humanpassions. Having massacred several of the missionaries, and committed several other outrages, they provoked Charlemagne3* A. D. 772. 30 HISTORY OF FRANCE. to wage war against them, and so strenuously were they at-tached to liberty, that they held out against his powerf:*? for thirtv vears. 6. In one of these battles Witikind, the Saxon general, inflicted a severe defeat on theFrench, which Charlemagne cruelly revenged by the massacreof Verden, where four thousand five hundred of the principalSaxons were beheaded. 7. At length Witikind, after being. Submission of Witikind. defeated with great slaughter in several battles, made his sub-mission, and embraced Christianity. His followers were notequally tractable; they often revolted, and were not com-pletely subdued until Charlemagne removed many thousandfamilies of them, which he dispersed through Flanders andother countries. Some of the most resolute tribes retiredinto Scandinavia, carrying with them an implacable hatredagainst the dominion and religion of the French. 8. Every nation in Germany that attempted to make theleast resistance to the arms of Charlemagne was subdued ;the Sclavonians in Pomerania shared the fate of the Saxons, and were compelled to become Christians and subjects.Tassilo, duke of Bavaria, the nephew of Charlemagne, had THE REIGN OF CHARLEMAGNE. 31 encouraged the Saxons in their rebellion, and Charlemagnein turn entered Bavaria. The duke in his distress sought thealliance of

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