Clovis, France, and Rome (Wylie, The history of Protestantism, [1870], vol. 1)

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 first of the Gothic princes to enter the Roman communion was Clovis, King of the Franks. [...] The Pope styled him "the eldest son of the Church," a title which the Kings of France, his successors, have worn these 1,400 years. When Clovis ascended from the baptismal font he was the only as well as the eldest son of the Church, for he alone, of all the new chiefs that now governed the West, had as yet submitted to the baptismal rite.

Wylie, James Aitken, The history of Protestantism, London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1870], vol. 1, p. 10.

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