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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Martin was the acknowledged leader of the church in Gaul. It was he whointroduced monastic life into the land. But he deserves our highest regardfor the earnest though unavailing stand he made against the growing perse-cutions which sheltered themselves behind the name of Christianity. Priscil-lian, a Spaniard, preached a doctrine which was denounced by his brotherSpaniards as heretical. Two of them journeyed all the way to the Gallo-Roman capital of Treves to demand Priscillians death, and, despite St. Mar-tins protest, he was executed at Treves by the Emperors order in 385, thefirst official victim of the new state religion. Neither Christianity nor Constantine, however, saved dying Gaul. TheEmperor abandoned her for his ambitious career in the East; the bishops dis-puted among themselves upon points of doctrine. Julian, afterward the Em-peror Julian the Apostate, the foe of Christianity, was for a time (355-361)governor of Gaul. Under him the advance of Christianity was endangered.
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France—The Barbaric Invasions 775 but the prosperity of the land temporarily revived. He chastised the invadingP^ranks, and we are told expelled them all from the province. Yet the nextmoment we find him removing the seat of Roman government in the northfrom Treves to Lutetia as being a safer spot, farther from the dangerous Rhinefrontier. It was Julian apparently who changed the name of Lutetia to Paris, andthus in a sense became the founder of the great modern metropolis. He rebuiltit as a splendid Roman city, and made his favorite residence at his dear Lute-tia. So pleased with him were his Gallic legions, that when they were sum-moned to leave him for the service of the Byzantine emperor, they revolted andraised Julian to the imperial throne. So he, too, was lost to Gaul, and again it sank into anarchy. Whole dis-tricts were depopulated by starvation, slavery, or the ravages of the Franks; andstill the monstrous taxation continued, and the extravagance of the rulers, untilmen pr

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