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and Nero are among the comparisons employed.

The third part, comprising Books VII to X, takes his increasingly personal account to the year 591, and concludes with a plea for further chroniclers to preserve his work in entirety (as indeed would be done). An epilogue was written in 594, the year of Gregory's death.

Problems of interpretation

Readers of the Historia Francorum may find that one royal Frankish house is more generously treated than others.

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