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 | | Charles Martel, after the battle of Poitiers, and Pippin the Short, in 752, were both repulsed from its walls; but on a new attempt, after an investment of seven years, and by aid of a traitor, the Franks managed again to force their way into Narbonne. |
 | | Charlemagne made the city the capital of the duchy of Gothia, and divided it into three lordshipsone for the bishop, another for a Frankish lord, and the third for the Jews, who, occupying their own quarter, possessed schools, synagogues and a university famous in the middle ages. |
 | | The most probable supposition is that the cup is simply an excrescence or " enation " from the mouth of the flower-tube, and is connected with the fertilization of the flowers by insect agency. |
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