On this day 1100 years ago: A pact of friendship between France and Germany (on the Rhine near Bonn)

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  1. Everytime I see those pictures, all I can think of now is the series “What We Do In The Shadows”. I am forever ruined to appreciate old pictures… 🧛

  2. Friendship my ass, he was just propping up a weakened monarch to keep the West unstable and legitimize his own independence. A few years later Henry the Fowler used civil war in the West to completely invade and annex *Lothringia*. He’s for all intents and purposes the founder of Germany, and his son the founder of the HRE.

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