Louis the Pious at his palace of Attigny near Vouziers in the Ardennes in 822, performing penance before Pope Paschal I, for causing the death of his nephew Bernard of Italy. Louis the Pious, 778 – 840, also called the Fair, and the Debonaire. King of the Franks and co-Emperor (as Louis I) with his father, Charlemagne. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published

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