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Treaty of Verdun – Part 2: Negotiation at Verdun and the struggle for peace
In a world where bloodshed had failed, the fate of the Carolingian Empire hinged on a different kind of battle—one fought with words, not swords. In the summer of eight forty-three, the future of Europe came down to a handful of men in a city called Verdun. The Carolingian brothers had seen the cost of war. Fontenoy’s fields were still haunted by the dead, and the empire itself was battered, its borders raided by Vikings and Saracens.
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