History of the Franks

by Saint Bishop of Tours Gregory

E. B.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Besides Clermont and Tours in which cities Gregory spent most of his life we hear of stays at Poitiers, Saintes, Bordeaux, Riez, Cavaillon, Vienne, Lyons, Chalon-sur-Saône, Châlons-sur-Marne, Rheims, Soissons, Metz, Coblentz, Braine, Paris, Orleans. Monod, Sources de l’histoire Mérovingienne, p. 37.

[2] Childebert the elder is represented as saying: Velim unquam Arvernam Lemanem quae tantae jocunditatis gratia refulgere dicitur, oculis cernere. H. F. III, 9.

[3] In France, including Alsace and Lorraine, there are at the present time three thousand six hundred and seventy-five churches dedicated to St. Martin, and four hundred and twenty-five villages or hamlets are named after him. C. Bayet, in Lavisse, Histoire de France, 21 p. 16.

[4] C. Bayet, in Lavisse, Histoire de France, 21, pp. 13 ff.

[5] Monod, op. cit. pp. 25 ff. See pp. 13, 84, 109, 140.

[6] Gloria Martyrum, c. 83.

[7] De Virtut. S. Mart. I, 36.

[8] Vitæ Patrum, VIII, 3.