Migrations on Foot 353 C. L. S. C. Work 355 Outline of C. L. S. C. Readings 355 C. L. S. C. ’84 355 To the Class of ’85 356 Local Circles 356 Questions and Answers 362 Chautauqua Normal Course 364 Editor’s Outlook 365 Editor’s Note-Book 368 C. L. S. C. Notes on Required Readings for March 370 Notes on Required Readings in “The Chautauquan” 372 Chautauqua Normal Graduates 374 Errata and Addenda 375 REQUIRED READING FOR THE _Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for 1883-4_. MARCH. READINGS FROM FRENCH HISTORY. By REV. J. H. VINCENT, D.D. I.—AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH HISTORY. From “The People’s Commentary”—and paragraphed. 1. Gallia was the name under which France was designated by the Romans, who knew little of the country till the time of Cæsar, when it was occupied by the Aquitani, Celtæ, and Belgæ. 2. Under Augustus, Gaul was divided into four provinces, which, under subsequent emperors, were dismembered, and subdivided into seventeen. 3. In the fifth century it fell completely under the power of the Visigoths, Burgundians, and Franks. 4. In 486 A. D., Clovis, a chief of the Salian Franks, raised himself to supreme power in the north. His dynasty, known as the Merovingian, ended in the person of Childeric III., who was deposed 752 A. D. 5. The accession of Pepin gave new vigor to the monarchy, which, under his son and successor, ~Charlemagne~,[A] crowned Emperor in the west in 800 (768-814), rose to the rank of the most powerful empire of the west. With him, however, this vast fabric of power crumbled to pieces, and his weak descendants completed the ruin of the Frankish Empire by the dismemberment of its various parts among the younger branches of the Carlovingian family. 6. On the death of Louis V. the Carlovingian dynasty was replaced by that of Hugues, Count of Paris, whose son, Hugues Capet, was elected king by the army, and consecrated at Rheims 987 A. D.