Very powerful Charlemagne had given to each one of its sons a kingdom.

Louis Débonnaire, the third of them, became king d' Aquitaine at the three years age (781); when it had been proclaimed in Rome and had been crowned solemnly by the Adrien pope, one brought back it in his cradle to the border of Aquitaine; there one covered it with suitable armour a "at his age and his size"; one covered it with a royal coat, and one put on his head a crown, then the small king, placed on a large horse, entered his kingdom like a triumphant victor.

Later Louis Débonnaire followed Charlemagne in several wars, and the death of his two brothers Charles and Pépin made him to it single heir to the immense empire.

Charles, who made a point of knowing the truth, entered the schools sometimes, of same as it inspected itself with the day before of a battle the state of the weapons and until with the straps of the horses.

One day that the poor children of a school had worked much better than the rich children, it made pass the first on its line, addressed praises to them and promised to them to give them later of great employment; then turning to the others with anger: "As for you, it of a voice of thunder exclaimed, you wasted your time, without regard for my commands and your honor; you count on your birth, but I do little case of your nobility, and you will never obtain anything me if you do not change control "

While Charlemagne was in Rome, the Pope Leon III solved to reward it for the services which it had rendered to Christendom.

A few days before the end of the eighth century, the Christmas Day 800, during the mass, at the time when Charlemagne was inclined in front of the large furnace bridge to request, the Pope advanced towards him and posed to him on the head the imperial crown, then it prosterna in front of him to adore it, according to the established habit of the time of the last Roman Emperors, while the people shouted by three times with enthusiasm: "With the large Emperor Charles, crowned by God, life and victory" Charlemagne was crowned at once, i.e.

that the Pope the oignit of holy oil, and blesses it to attract on his head the divine favours.

Pépin, son elder of Charlemagne, was crowned in its turn as king d' Italie.

It was a large spectacle which this alliance of the Emperor, Master of the Occident, and the Pope, chief of Christendom.

The title of Emperor, who pointed out the power of old Rome, was respected still so much, that the crowning of Charlemagne produced an immense effect; one thought to see the past reappearing, and the people were proud to form part of the great empire.

During three centuries the Church was persecuted by the pagan ones, and on the thirty-two popes, twenty-eight were put at died or tortured.

At the beginning of the fourth century Christianity triumphed with Constantin, but sovereign pontiffs was a long time only the bishops of Rome, they were the subjects of the Roman emperors.

When the Western Empire was destroyed, they fell into the dependence from the kings ostrogoths, then kings lombards, at the same time as the emperors of the East preserved their claims on Italy.

It was Pépin the Brief which made the Holy See independent by giving him the temporal power.

Papacy still grows with Charlemagne, and the successors of Leon III claimed like a right to crown the emperors of Occident.