... fainéants, as the French call them. The AustrasianMayor of the Palace, Pippin of Heristal, the great-grandfather of Charlemagne, succeeded in getting, inaddition to Austrasia, both Neustria ... officials of the government. In thisway it came about that a great many of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire were Germans before the greatinvasions. The line dividing the Roman and the barbarian ... rule of Rome. One great state embraced the nomad shepherds who spread their tents on the borders of Sahara, the mountaineers in the fastnesses of Wales,and the citizens of Athens, Alexandria, and...