FRANKS

THE, a Germanic people tor | sottiod to the north of the western Ge os-/in the north of Frauce during the e he | part of the 5th century A.D. Clovis the | Grst king of the Franks, drove the G ed | out of France in 481, the country tal eh. }its name( France) from the a an jas Southern Britain (England) took en j|mame from tle invading Angles. Ol sc | became a Christian and was baptize ea- | Rheims in 496, and buried with his 1 wo | Clotilda, in the Church of St. Genev that she had built at Paris. of| FRAUNHOFER, [s. 149]