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Ranking the Carolingians with Battle Royale: French Monarchs

The French History Podcast

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The Second Half of the Frank's Comedy

Louise's first reign was a fairly decent continuation of Charlemagne's. He really dropped the ball in the second half and all of his bad decisions ended up tearing apart this great empire. And he went on a moral crusade at court, which dampened the art and absolutely killed Carolingian humor. So we are both in the in the sort of Louis not Louis haters but Louis down players.

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