Note 63 — Chapter Six
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In order to give color to the usurpation (for it was nothing better), the lawyers cited an obscure article from the code of the barbarous Salians, which, as they pretended had always been the acknowledged law of the French monarchy.... Since that time the Salic law, as it is called, has been regarded as an essential constitutional principle in France.—Student’s History of France, p. 19.