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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 6, 25. Of Signs and Wonders
At Tours, in the eighth year of King Childebert, on the eve of the kalends of February,1 which was a Sunday, the bell had rung for matins. The people had risen and were on their way to church, when a great globe of fire fell with the rain from a cloudy sky, and traversed a great space of air. It gave forth so much light that all things were seen plain, as if it were midday; then it was once more taken up into cloud and darkness followed. The waters rose beyond all wont; the Seine and the Marne caused such flood round Paris that many a boat was wrecked between the city and the church of the holy Laurence.
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- A. D. 583, 31st January.