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HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE EIGHTH BOOK 1. Visit of the king at Orleans. 2. How the bishops were presented to him and how he made ready a feast. 3. The singers and Mummolus's silver. 4. Praise of king Childebert. 5. The visions of ChUperic which the king and I saw. 6. Those whom I presented. 7. How bishop Palladius said mass. 8. Prodigies. 9. The oath given in behalf of Chilperic's son. 10. The bodies of Merovech and Clovis. 11. The doorkeepers and the killing of Boantus. 12. Bishop Theodore and the plague that visited Ratharius. 13. The embassy sent by Gunthram to Childebert. 14. Danger on the river. 15. Conversion of deacon Vulfilaic. 16. What he related of St. Martin's miracles. 17. The signs which appeared. 18. Childebert sends an army into Italy; the dukes and counts who are ap- pointed or removed. 19. Elilling of the abbot Daulfus. 20. Acts of the synod at Macon. 21. The court at Beslingen and the violation of sepulcher. 22. Death of the bishops and of Wandalinus. 23. Floods. 24. The islands of the sea. 25. The island in which blood appeared. 26. The former duke Berulf. 27. Desiderius returns to the king. 28. Hermengild and Ingunda and the Spanish legates secretly sent to Frede- gunda. 29. Fredegunda sends persons to kill Childebert. 30. The army makes an expedition against Septimania. 31. The killing of bishop Praetextatus. 32. Killing of Domnola, Nectarius's wife. 33. Burning of Paris. 34. Temptations of recluses. 187