Clovis, France, and Rome (Smollett, The present state of all nations, 1769, vol. 6)
Text: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:7,8
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[...] the king of France, the most Christian king, or his most Christian majesty. The pope, in his bulls, stiles him the eldest son of the church; because Clovis was the first prince after the fall of the Roman empire who embraced Christianity. [...]
Smollett, Tobias, The present state of all nations: containing a geographical, natural, commercial, and political history of all the countries in the known world, London: Printed for R. Baldwin; W. Johnston; S. Crowder; and Robertson and Roberts, 1769, vol. 6, p. 83.
Online Source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067947562&view=1up&seq=7 ; https://books.google.ca/books?id=IFY9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
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