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 I The Culture of the Middle Ages 445 ocks of stone.] This city was originally called Lutetia on account of the pestilential mud with which it was filled. The inhabitants, shocked by the name, which was always recalling the mud to them, preferred to call the city Paris, from Paris Alexander, son of Priam, king of Troy; for we read in the Acts of the Franks that the first king of the Franks who exercised the royal power was Pharamond, son of Marcomir, whose father was Priam, king of Austrasia. This Priam, king of Austrasia, was not, however, the great Priam, king of Troy, but he was a descendant of Hector, Priam's son, through Francius, as will be seen from the following table. PRIAM, KING OF TROY I 186. How the Mero- vingian kings sprang from Troy. (From the Life of Philip Augustus, by Rigord.) TROILUS Turck, son of Troilus HECTOR Francius, son of Hector Priam, king of Austrasia Marcomir, his son Pharamond, his son, first king of Gaul, reigned 1 1 years Clodius, his son, reigned 20 years Meroveus, of his race, reigned 17 years Childeric, his son, reigned 20 years Now, since it is not rare to find those who doubt this origin of the Franks and the authorities which would prove that the kings of France may really be traced back to the Trojans, we have taken pains to collect all the information in the history of Gregory of Tours, in the chronicles of Eusebius and of Idacius, besides the writings of many others, in order to establish this genealogy correctly. After the destruction of Troy a great number of the How the inhabitants of that city fled, and later separated into two Franks and f i i e i i T- -the Turks peoples ; one of these took for their king Francius, son of came to be Hector, and consequently grandson of Priam the former king so called. of the Trojans ; the other followed the son of Troilus, the second son of Priam. He was called the Turck ; and it is in this way, it is said, that these two peoples received the