ria Arabum (c. 11, 12, 13, 14) of Roderic
Ximenes, archbishop of Toledo, who had before him the Christian
chronicle of Isidore Pacensis, and the Mahometan history of Novairi.
The Moslems are silent or concise in the account of their losses; but M
Cardonne (tom. i. p. 129, 130, 131) has given a pure and simple account
of all that he could collect from Ibn Halikan, Hidjazi, and an anonymous
writer. The texts of the chronicles of France, and lives of saints, are
inserted in the Collection of Bouquet, (tom. iii.,) and the Annals
of Pagi, who (tom. iii. under the proper years) has restored the
chronology, which is anticipated six years in the Annals of Baronius.
The Dictionary of Bayle (Abderame and Munuza) has more merit for lively
reflection than original research.]

[Footnote 26: Eginhart, de Vita Caroli Magni, c. ii. p. 13-78, edit.
Schmink, Utrecht, 1711. Some modern critics accuse the minister of
Charlemagne of exaggerating the weakness of the Merovingians; but the
general outline is just, and the French reader will forever repeat the
beautiful lines of Boileau's Lutrin.]

[Footnote 27: Mamaccae, on the Oyse, between Compiegne and Noyon, which
Eginhart calls perparvi reditus villam, (see the notes, and the map of
ancient France for Dom. Bouquet's Collection.) Compendium, or Compiegne,
was a palace of more dignity, (Hadrian. Valesii Notitia Galliarum, p.
152,) and that laughing philosopher, the Abbe Galliani, (Dialogues sur
le Commerce des Bleds,) may truly affirm, that it was the residence of
the rois tres Chretiens en tres chevelus.]

[Footnote 28: Even before that colony, A. U. C. 630, (Velleius Patercul.
i. 15,) In the time of Polybius, (Hist. l. iii. p. 265, edit. Gronov.)
Narbonne was a Celtic town of the first eminence, and one of the most
northern places of the known world, (D'Anville, Notice de l'Ancienne
Gaule, p. 473.)]

But these narrow limits were scorned by the spirit of Abdalraman, or
Abderame, who had been restored by the caliph Hashem to the wishes of
the soldiers and people of Spain. That veteran and daring commander
adjudged to the obedience of the prophet whatever yet remained of France
or of Europe; and prepared to execute the sentence, at the head of a
formidable host, in the full confidence of surmounting all opposition
either of nature or of man. His first care was to suppress a domestic
rebel, who commanded the most important passes of the Pyrenees: Manuza,
a Moorish chief, had accepted the