FRA 
and their bape er valour was fatal 
. The king of the ig ated 
aintain- 
| e to 
sreign, and molt p an the 
enterprifing fpirit i Ts fubjects, the three pal Mentz, 
e 
it ranks 5 
ne 
ves, and Co e, experien e of hoftile 
eruelty and avar he diftrefs of Cologne was prolonged 
by the perpetual dominion of fame barb ho eva- 
euated the ruins eves; and Treves, which in the {pace 
of forty years had. been four times hefieged arid pillaged, 
twas difpofed to lofe eas) of her affliftions in the 
vain amufements of the c 
The death of Clodion, after a reign of twenty years, 
expofed his’ kingdom to the difcord and “ambition of his two 
fons. eroveus, - ae was perfuaded to implore 
the proteGtion of s received at the imperial 
court as the a y - Vie and the adopted fon of the 
patrician AEtius ; and difmiffed to his native country with 
Aplendid gifts, and the ftrongeft ere of friendfhip and 
fupport. During his abfence, his elder brother had folicited, 
‘with equal ardour, the formidable aid of Attila ; and the 
king of the Huns embraced.an alliance, which facilitated the 
paflage.of the Rhine, and juftified, bya {pecious and ho- 
ay eo eigae the invafion of Gaul. Merovens died, 
in 456, but, according to others, in. 4583 
pee five lived and reigned, loved and csp by his 
pep e as a common, father; and from. him the Franks 
ne called’ Merovingians. . genealo- 
gical table of aie French kings, p refixed to a MS. 1] 
of. Charles the Great, lodged in the oe library at Bruffels, 
he i is made the fto ck or head of the firft race. Meroveus 
As {oon- as he afcended 
— years. He Tikewife made him aus eg se i ers and 
alfo of Orleans. He died at 4 ournay. 
An early life fe v was addictedto very i nearer pees: 8, and 
the Franks, incenfed by! his — ae nifhed him with exile, 
and elected CEgidius Rom eral, for their kin 
However, the tation, rr the ert re) Ge years, repented of 
the injury which they had offered to the Merovingian family, 
and gate acquiefced in the reftoration of the exiled 49° 
rince. e Childeric lived an exile in Germany, he was 
Potitsbly ent entertained by the queen as well as by the king of 
the Thuringians. ter his Ra aa Bafina efcaped from 
her hufband’s bed to the arm 
482 The narrow 
limite of his kingdom were confined to the ifland .of the Ba- 
tavians, with the ancient diocefesof'Tournay and Arras; and 
at the baptifm of Clovis, the number of his warriors eau 
not exceed five thoufand. The kindred tribes of theFranks, 
who had feated d themfelvesa! aiong the Belgic rivers, the Scheldt, 
the Meufe, the Mofelle, and the Rhine, were governed by 
-their independent kings, ‘of. t 
equals, the. bone and fometin mes the enemies, of the Salic 
rince. Germans who obeyed, in. peace, here-. 
ditary ‘atifdi@tion of he chifs, were free to follow the 
thandard of a popular and victorious general. y and the fupe- 
rior merit of ‘Clovis attracted the pa ee and allegiance of 
the national ‘confederacy. ‘See Crovis. In the year 
536,. tienty-five: years after the death of Clovis, the French 
monarchy in Gayl was oe eftablithed. The Offrogoths 
2° 
of Porentru, feated on the Dou ; 16m 
°  FRANSCHE 
ero ovingian. pee ; the nour 
FRA 
of Italy, anahle to defend their diftant sequitons, had ré- 
figned to the Franks the cities of Arles and Ma 
e ed on a. more lawful, tote not more legia foonda- . 
tion, the thr oO 
ne 
The Franks, or French, are 
sepa hl be aul was followed 
by cen nie of anarch d igno: 
The Franks were tall of fae with light hair and a 
eyes; and as tq their military charaGer, we may 
that their oe of freedom and of arms was felt, with con. 
rufh headlon qe sare 
pute either Fis num or their own 
formed by the firm ee eis of confangunity and friend- 
fhip ; an a their martial deeds are prompted by 
faving er revenging their deareft companions. "ya their eyes, 
a Stee 18.a apt flight: and flight is indelible infamy.” 
Gibbon’ the ‘Decline, &e. of the Roman Em~ 
gether under the comm 
to war, without ecknowleging his dominion 
time of peace : r princes were rather the chiefs of the 
foldiers, than the ings of the people: they. paid. him no tri- 
bute, divided the {poils, and made him prefents. - Such were 
the eer aah se Gaul, and. the founders. of the French 
monarchy. AN ‘ In procefs of time they became 
a and infenfibly loft their eee manners. ‘Their de: 
mocracy ‘wasabolifhed, and a military ariftocracy fucceeded.. 
FRA KSTADT, | in a ee hy, a igs of Moravia, in 
the circle of Prerau ; oa S. of a rg. N. lat. 
29’. E. long. 18° 
FRANKWALD, o a Puskow ITZ, a town of Silefi ia, 
in the eae of Oels; four miles N.W. of ' Feitenberg: 
FRANQUEMONT, atown of ear caer in the canton 
es N. of Neufchatels 
Horck, or Fren. a 7 ner, a fubordinate 
valley among the mountains; deriving its name from the 
French refugees who iettled here, when they fled to this 
country after the revocation of theedi@ of Nantes. Te 
thefe people the colony is indebted for the introduCtion of 
the vine. The eftates here are commonly F freehold Rove 
and, produce little elfe- than wine an sei fri nite. 
FRANS Cavanilles in hoa 
‘Op, & a fician of Madrid, rather 
» from motives of peri onal regard, than from any: 
otanial merits in his frien ve Ic. 24.78... Willd. Spe 
“8; Clafs'and an “Monecia Pentandria. , Nat.” 
Ord. Campyh fite nucamentacee, Linn. Co orymbi bifera. anomale, Jaffe 
Male Flowers compound... Cal. Common 
So of one leaf, flat, toothed, the length of the florets, 
Cor. compound, uniform, tubular, equal, formmg a hemi-. 
{phere ; par rtial ere€t, of one petal, funnel-fhaped, five-cleft, 
Stam, 
