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CHAPTER III. 



OVERTHROW OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY THE BARBARIANS. THE 

 'dark AGES.' THE EMPEROR LEO, AND HIS ' TACTICA.' FERREA 

 LUNATICA. THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE, AND 'SELENAIA.' 



ARCHAEOLOGY. ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF EUROPE. CHIFFLET's 



DESCRIPTION OF KING CHILDERIc's TOMB. DOUGLAS AND THE 

 ABBE COCHET. DISCOVERY OF ANTiaUE HORSE-SHOES. BURIAL 

 WITH HORSES. THE ANCIENT GERMANS, AND OTHER RACES 3 

 THEIR SUPERSTITIONS. THE GAULS AND BRITONS. RARITY 



OF HORSE-SHOES IN GRAVES. THE CELTS SHOD THEIR HORSESj 

 THEIR HISTORY. THE GAULS AS A NATION : WARRIORS AND 

 AGRICULTURISTS. THE DRUIDS. GALLIC NAMES. AN EftUES- 



TRIAN NATION. HORSES, WAGGONS, AND ROADS. ALESIA AND 

 ITS TOMBS. PRIMITIVE FARRIERY. THE DRUID's WORKSHOP 

 AND ALTAR. THE PONTIFF BLACKSMITH. THE GAULISH CAVALRY. 

 DEFEAT OF VERCINGETORIX. NAPOLEON III. AND HIS 'VIE DE 

 C^SAR.' BESAN^ON AND ITS RELICS. SMALL-SIZED HORSE- 



SHOES. GALLO-ROMAN SHOES 5 THEIR PECULIARITIES. SPECI- 

 MENS FOUND WITH ROMAN REMAINS. VAISON AND ITS TESTI- 

 MONY. CRECY. SUPPRESSION OF DRUIDISM IN GAUL. INVASION 

 OF THE FRANKS, AND EFFEMINACY OF THE GAULISH NOBLES. 

 THE FRANKS NOT AN EftUESTRIAN PEOPLE. LEVIES OF COWS IN- 

 STEAD OF HORSES. ABSENCE OF HORSE-SHOES FROM MEROVIN- 

 GIAN GRAVES. THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY. ADVANTAGES OF 

 CAVALRY. CHARLEMAGNE AND REVIVAL OF EftUESTRIANISM. 

 TRADITIONS. SHOEING IN FRANCE IN THE NINTH AND SUBSE- 

 GUENT CENTURIES. THE COMTE DE l'eTABLE, AND ECUYER. 

 ORIGIN OF CHIVALRY AND ITS CONSTITUTION. DUTIES OF THE 

 KNIGHTS. THE MARESCHAL. 



We have now reached a comparatively modern date 

 in the history of the domestication of the horse, without 



