[Footnote 116: Thegan, the biographer of Lewis, relates this
coronation: and Baronius has honestly transcribed it, (A.D.
813, No. 13, &c. See Gaillard, tom. ii. p. 506, 507, 508,)
howsoever adverse to the claims of the popes. For the
series of the Carlovingians, see the historians of France,
Italy, and Germany; Pfeffel, Schmidt, Velly, Muratori, and
even Voltaire, whose pictures are sometimes just, and always
pleasing.]