Copyright, 1908, by the
New York Labor News Company

INDEX

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.[v]
[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 close by a veritable epopee—the Frankish conquest of Brittany, and, as fittingly, serves to introduce the next epopee—the Northman's invasion of Gaul—dealt with in the following story, The Iron Arrow Head; or, The Buckler Maiden.

Daniel de Leon.

New York, May, 1905.