[27] 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.
[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.
[33] When Alan Barbetorte, after the recovery of Nantes, went to give thanks to God in the cathedral, he was compelled to cut his way, sword in hand, through thorns and briers.
[34] It must be admitted, however, that the poet's uncouth diction is anything but Virgilian.