Clotilda, after
years of wise counsel and charitable works, upon which her
determination for revenge seems to be the only stain, died long
after her husband, in the year 545, and to-day, in the city of
Paris, which was even then the capital of new France, the church
of St. Clotilda stands as her memorial, while her marble statue
may be seen by the traveller in the great palace of the
Luxembourg.
A typical girl of those harsh old days of the long ago,--loving
and generous toward her friends, unforgiving and revengeful to
her enemies,--reared in the midst of cruelty and of charity, she
did her duty according to the light given her, made France a
Christian nation, and so helped on the progress of civilization.
Certainly a place among the world's historic girls may rightly be
accorded to this fair-haired young princess of the summer-land of
France, the beautiful Clotilda of Burgundy.
WOO OF HWANG-HO.:
THE GIRL OF THE YELLOW RIVER.
[Afterwards the Great Empress Woo of China.] A.D. 635.
Thomas the Nestorian had been in many lands and in the midst of
many dangers, but he had never before found himself in quite so
unpleasant a position as now.
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