CLOVIS the First (about 466-511) launches the ax with all his strength to mark the place where he found the Abbey of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul; later dedicated to Sainte Genevieve; contemporary and involved the conversion of the Merovingian king; and in the same place he had for years lived as a hermit. Engraving from historical treatise 'Paris ?travers les si鑓les' Henri Gourdon de Genouillac; Paris 1878