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“When Europe faced the great invasions”
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“When Europe faced great invasions” Le Figaro History
The time is no longer when the union of the Visigoths, the Burgundians, the Franks and the Gallo-Romans facing the hordes of Attila, in the Catalan fields, was told to school children as the passing of the baton of civilization between the elites of late Antiquity and the kingdoms about to emerge from the dislocation of the Roman Empire;
where, with his ax raised, Charles Martel appeared, in the gallery of the Battles of Versailles, as the very symbol of resistance to Islam which had allowed the adventure of France and medieval Europe to take flight;
where the conversion of the harsh Viking warriors to Christianity was presented as the masterstroke of a Church which had succeeded, by civilizing them, in transforming the people...
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