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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6), volume 2

Note 436 — BOOK I[361]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Attila, King of the Huns (d. 453), when descending into Italy in 452 after his defeat in France, was stopped outside Rome by Pope St. Leo the Great, who persuaded him to return back after exacting a tribute from the Emperor Valentinian III.—T.

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