Image: Salic Law

Description: Clovis I, the King of the Franks, in the midst of the Military Chiefs who formed his Treuste, or armed Court, dictates the Salic Law (Code of the Barbaric Laws). -- Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chronicles of St. Denis," a Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Library of the Arsenal).
Title: Salic Law
Credit: Project Gutenberg text 10940
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