ticis, l i. c. 3, p. 11, 12.
Within the ancient walls of Vindonissa, the castle of Hapsburgh, the
abbey of Konigsfield, and the town of Bruck, have successively risen.
The philosophic traveller may compare the monuments of Roman conquest of
feudal or Austrian tyranny, of monkish superstition, and of industrious
freedom. If he be truly a philosopher, he will applaud the merit and
happiness of his own times.]

[Footnote 24: Gregory of Tours, (l. ii. 30, 37, in tom. ii. p. 176,
177, 182,) the Gesta Francorum, (in tom. ii. p. 551,) and the epistle
of Theodoric, (Cassiodor. Variar. l. ii. c. 41, in tom. iv. p. 4,)
represent the defeat of the Alemanni. Some of their tribes settled in
Rhaetia, under the protection of Theodoric; whose successors ceded the
colony and their country to the grandson of Clovis. The state of the
Alemanni under the Merovingian kings may be seen in Mascou (Hist. of the
Ancient Germans, xi. 8, &c. Annotation xxxvi.) and Guilliman, (de Reb.
Helvet. l. ii. c. 10-12, p. 72-80.)]

Till the thirtieth year of his age, Clovis continued to worship the
gods of his ancestors. [25] His disbelief, or rather disregard, of
Christianity, might encourage him to pillage with less remorse the
churches of a hostile territory: but his subjects of Gaul enjoyed the
free exercise of religious worship; and the bishops entertained a more
favorable hope of the idolater, than of the heretics. The Merovingian
prince had contracted a fortunate alliance with the fair Clotilda, the
niece of the king of Burgundy, who, in the midst of an Arian court, was
educated in the profession of the Catholic faith. It was her interest,
as well as her duty, to achieve the conversion [26] of a Pagan husband;
and Clovis insensibly listened to the voice of love and religion. He
consented (perhaps such terms had been previously stipulated) to the
baptism of his eldest son; and though the sudden death of the infant
excited some superstitious fears, he was persuaded, a second time,
to repeat the dangerous experiment. In the distress of the battle of
Tolbiac, Clovis loudly invoked the God of Clotilda and the Christians;
and victory disposed him to hear, with respectful gratitude, the
eloquent [27] Remigius, [28] bishop of Rheims, who forcibly displayed
the temporal and spiritual advantages of his conversion. The king
declared himself satisfied of the truth of the Catholic faith; and the
political reasons which might have suspended his public profession,