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Bruno Dumézil
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Charlemagne is one of the few figures from the Middle Ages whose memory endures. Like King Arthur or Joan of Arc, he has withstood the test of time. Conqueror, lawmaker, devout Christian monarch, and even the "inventor of schools," he is also viewed as the first "Father of Europe."
Yet the real Charlemagne lies hidden behind a legend he himself shaped and his heirs perpetuated: at the turn of the 8th and 9th centuries, the man known as Karl or Carolus lived several lives. The "Emperor of the Flowing Beard"—scion of an aristocratic family and son of a usurper—was a warrior-king who waged war b
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