"'Henri-Trois, de Bologne, en France est ramené, Redoute les ligueurs, et meurt assassiné!'" "No, from l'Estoile, Brantôme, d'Aubigné, and the _Confession de Sancy_; but I did not know there was anything like that about Mérovée or Clovis." "In the first place, they are not called Mérovée and Clovis now." "What are they called, then?" "Méro-wig and Hlode-wig; which mean _the eminent warrior_ and _the celebrated warrior."_ "Where did you see that?" "_Parbleu!_ in the _Lettres sur l'histoire de France_ by Augustin Thierry." "The _Lettres sur l'histoire de France,_ by Augustin Thierry?" "Yes." "Where can it be got?" "Anywhere." "What does it cost?" "Perhaps 10 or 12 francs, I am not sure exactly how much." "Will you be so good as to buy it for me and have it sent in as soon as you leave me?" "Nothing could be simpler." "Do you know any other books on this period?" "There is Chateaubriand's _Études historiques_ and the original sources of information." "Who are these?" "The authors of the Decline, Jornandès, Zozimus, Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours." "Have you read all those authors?" "Yes, partly." "Did the Abbé Gauthier not read them?" "In the first case he could not have read Augustin Thierry, who has written since his death. As to Chateaubriand, he was his contemporary, and historians never read contemporary historians; finally, as regards Jornandès, Zozimus, Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours, I suspect the Abbé Gauthier of never having even known of their existence." "But whence, then, did he get his history?" "From the Abbé Gauthier's who wrote the same sort of histories before him." "Will you also buy me Chateaubriand at the same time as Thierry?" "Certainly." "See; here is the money ... I shall not see you again." "No; but you want your Augustin Thierry and Chateaubriand?" "I confess I do." "You shall have them in a quarter of an hour's time." And I had them a quarter of an hour later.