LANGUAGES. 



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their desire that the homilies of the Church should be translated simul- 

 taneously both into Teutonic and Romance (Fig. 297). 



The Teutonic language none the less disappeared at the end of the tenth 

 century, for Duke Hugh Capet, before he became the first king of the third 

 race, during an interview with the Emperor Otho II., who spoke in pure 

 Latin so as to make himself understood by the bishops, could only reply to 

 him in Romance ; and the historian Richer, who was present at the interview, 

 relates that Arnulf, Bishop of Orleans, was obliged to translate what Otho 



Fig. 297. King Robert, Sou of Hugh Capet, composing Sequences and Responses in Latin. 

 Miniature from the " Chroniques de France." Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, No. 3. 

 In the Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



said into the vulgar tongue in order that Duke Hugh might understand it. 

 A little later, however, when Duke Hugh was upon the throne, the Bishop of 

 Verdun was appointed to speak at the Synod of Mouzon because he knew 

 Teutonic. The Romance or vulgar tongue had none the less continued to 

 make its way throughout the western provinces which formed the kingdom 

 of France, and it was tho language both of the nobles and of the people. 



