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    The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the...
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    Oaths of Strasbourg (842) Treaty of Coulaines (843) Treaty of Prüm (855) Treaty of Meerssen (870) Treaty of Ribemont (880) "What was the Treaty of Verdun...
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    related to Oaths. Look up oath in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oaths. Oaths in the Qur'an Courtroom oaths Archived...
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    then Strasbourg in French. The Oaths of Strasbourg is considered as marking the birth of the two countries of France and Germany with the division of the...
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    Rhaeto-Romance languages. Old Gallo-Romance was one of the two languages in which the Oaths of Strasbourg were written in 842 AD. The Gallo-Romance group...
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    notable dates were the years 357 (Battle of Argentoratum), 842 (Oaths of Strasbourg), 1538 (establishment of the university), 1605 (world's first newspaper...
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    and raised a new army, which was inferior to that of the younger brothers. In the Oaths of Strasbourg, in 842, Charles and Louis agreed to declare Lothar...
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  • birth of Old French, which partly explains that Old French is the earliest-attested Romance language, such as in the Oaths of Strasbourg and Sequence of Saint...
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  • for the latter; among the earliest examples are parts of the Oaths of Strasbourg and the Sequence of Saint Eulalia. Some Gaulish words influenced Vulgar...
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    Vulgar Latin (category Historical forms of languages with ISO codes)
    (*ecce ille), and many other forms. On the other hand, even in the Oaths of Strasbourg, no demonstrative appears even in places where one would clearly...
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    French language (category Languages of the Republic of the Congo)
    evidence of what became Old French can be seen in the Oaths of Strasbourg and the Sequence of Saint Eulalia, while Old French literature began to be...
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    Alsace (category NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union)
    Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm...
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  • the Catholic Church Sacramenta Argentaria, the Oaths of Strasbourg Sacramental, a token object or action of respect (sacramentalia) associated with the Sacraments...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, France. 12th C. BCE – Area settled by proto-Celts. 3rd C. BCE – Celts develop...
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    express an action that has been finished completely or incompletely at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past. It originally corresponded...
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  • Oaths of Strasbourg from 842 is the earliest text written in the early form of French called Romance or Gallo-Romance. The Celtic Gaulish language of...
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    by the Oaths of Strasbourg. He concluded his fighting and in August 843 signed the Treaty of Verdun with his younger brothers. As a result of this treaty...
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    Indovinello Veronese from the eight century and the Oaths of Strasbourg from the second half of the ninth century. From the 10th century onwards, some...
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    expansion of the French Empire. In the eighteenth century, Creole French was the first and native language of many different peoples including those of European...
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  • the Oaths of Strasbourg. The situation was not unlike the one in England after the Norman Conquest, with Frankish nobility occupying the role of superstratum...
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    Battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841. In the following year, the two brothers confirmed their alliance by the celebrated Oaths of Strasbourg. The...
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    and events of the French language: Concile of Tours in 813 Oaths of Strasbourg Chanson de Roland Novels of Chrétien de Troyes Sequence of Saint Eulalia...
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    Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster...
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  • Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (French: Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts) is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of France...
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    Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French[citation needed]...
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    the 9th century, romana lingua (the term used in the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842) was the first of the Romance languages to be recognized by its speakers...
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    formally reinstates the veneration of icons in the churches. February 14 – Oaths of Strasbourg: King Louis the German, ruler of East Francia, and his half-brother...
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  • ISBN 9780203986738. Humphrey Illo, « Quelques observations sur les Serments de Strasbourg et sur le manuscrit qui les contient (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de...
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  • passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite past), is the literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language, used predominantly in formal writing...
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    for the latter; among the earliest examples are parts of the Oaths of Strasbourg and the Sequence of Saint Eulalia. As the Carolingian Reforms spread the...
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