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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.

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BOOK XVIII.: OF LAWS IN THE RELATION THEY BEAR TO THE NATURE OF THE SOIL.

CHAP. XXV.: Childeric.

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CHAP. XXV.: Childeric.

“THE laws of matrimony, amongst the Germans, says Tacitus, are strictly observed.^†645 Vice is not there a subject of ridicule. To corrupt or be corrupted is not called fashion, or the custom of the age. There are few ^†646 examples, in this populous nation, of the violation of conjugal faith.”

This was the reason of the expulsion of Childeric: he shocked their rigid virtue, which conquest had not had time to corrupt.

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CHAP. XXV.: Childeric.