[23] The palace in the Cité, where now stands the Palais de Justice.
[24] Roads in the Arrondissement of Amiens and Mondidier in Picardy are still known as Chaussées Brunehautes.
[25] The works of art traditionally ascribed to St. Eloy are many. He is reported to have made a golden throne set with stones (or rather two thrones, for he used his material so honestly and economically). He was made master of the mint and thirteen pieces of money are known which bear his name. He decorated the tombs of St. Martin and St. Denis, and constructed reliquaries for St. Germain, Notre Dame, and other churches.
[26] Five of them died between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six.
[27] It was during this struggle that St. Leger, bishop of Autun, whose name is dear to English sportsmen, one of the most popular of saints in his time, was imprisoned, blinded and subsequently beheaded by Ebrion’s orders in 678.
[28] The term Cité (civitas) was given to the old Roman part of many French towns.
[29] The Carlovingians had been careful to abolish the office of mayor of the palace.
[30] St. Pierre was subsequently enriched by the possession of the body of St. Maur, brought thither in the Norman troubles by fugitive monks from Anjou, and the monastery is better known to history under the name of St. Maur des Fossés. The entrails of our own Henry V. were buried there. Rabelais, before its secularisation, was one of its canons, and Catherine de Medicis once possessed a château on its site. Monastery and château no longer exist.
[31] The villa of those days was a vast domain, part dwelling, part farm, part game preserve.
[32] The remains of the great Viking’s castle are still shown at Aalesund, in Norway.