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King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
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Clovis I
King of the Franks from 481 to 511
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Lutetia
Roman city, predecessor of Paris
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Abbey of Saint Genevieve
Monastery in Paris suppressed at the time of the French Revolution
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