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In Gaul the Merovingian successors to Roman power employed the curule seat as an emblem of their right to dispense justice, and their Capetian successors retained the iconic seat: the " Throne of Dagobert ", of cast bronze retaining traces of its former gilding, is conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The " throne of Dagobert " is first mentioned in the 12th century, already as a treasured relic, by Abbot Suger, who claims in his Administratione, " We also restored the noble throne of the glorious King Dagobert, on which, as tradition relates, the Frankish kings sat to receive the homage of their nobles after they had assumed power.
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