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"And so it happened, in the year of Our Lord's Incarnation 772, the lands of the Franks were beset by the scourge of civil war, with brother fighting brother, as Carloman and Charles, breaking the bonds of familial love, took arms against each other. [Woe to you, sons of Pepin! What horrors had you visited upon us!]"

- excerpt from the Annales regni Francorum, the last phrase a marginal addition by an unknown hand.
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