Christian History in Its Three Great Periods, volume 1
Christian History in Its Three Great Periods, volume 1
Joseph Henry Allen
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At heart, Charles was no Eoman patrician, but a German chief. He delighted in border forays and border tales. He cathered with a careful fondness CHARLEMAGNE. 237 the native German ballads. He lived the free life of a huntsman in the woods, when not in the stir of camp or court. He ranged incessantly from place to place in his wide ill-defined dominion, choosing lor his capital not the royal town of Paris, mucli less Rome, but Aachen {Aix-la-Chapcllc), near his most turbulent frontier, where he... died, and where his sep- ulchre remains until this day. He bore with an ill grace the tlieatrical pomps and splendors of his ofQce, — unless it might be to rival in public ceremonial the state of some distant sovereign whose embassy was waiting on him. Only twice in his life lie put. On the cumbrous robes of Iioman majesty, preferring the Gallic trousers and the loose sheep-skin jacket of his easy-going home-life. He chafed, too, under the rigid rules of church-dis- cipline, — that is, if he submitted to it at all.
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