Clotaire I. -561. Son of Clovis. Merovingian king of Franks 511-. Reunited empire 558-61.

Clotaire II. 584-629. Merovingian king of Neustria. Reunited Frankish Empire 613, but ceded power to nobles.

Clotilda, St. c475-545. Converted her husband, Clovis.

Cloud, St. (Clodoald). Grandson of Clovis I.

Clouet, Jean. 1485-1540. French portrait painter.

Clovis I. 465-511. Salian Frankish king 481-. Conquered N Gaul. Baptized at Reims. Moved capital to Paris in 506. First Merovingian king of France.

Club of Rome. Published 1972 Limits to Growth showing the dangers of overpopulation.

Clymene. Nymph. Mother of Atlas and Prometheus.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Cobden, Treaty. 1860. Free trade between Britain and France.

Cochise. -1874. Apache warrior Indian chief.

Cockayne, Land of. Legendary medieval land of gluttony and idleness.

Cocteau, Jean. 1889-1963. Montparnasse poet. Provençale figurative painter. Filmmaker.

Cod War. 1972-6. Britain upset at Iceland’s unilateral expansion of fishing limits to 50 miles.

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste. 1619-83. Louis XIV’s Finance Minister.

Colchester. Pre-Roman Belgic capital. First Roman settlement in Britain.

Cold War. 1946-90. Alternating crisis and detente between west and east, begun with Russia breaking Potsdam Agreement and creating communist regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Cole, George. 1889-1959. English economist/journalist: The Intelligent Man’s Guide Through World Chaos.

Coleridge, Samuel. 1772-1834. English Romantic poet: Ancient Mariner 1798, Kubla Khan.

Colet, John. 1467-1519. English theologian. Founded St. Paul’s School, 1509.

Collins, Wilkie. 1824-89. First British detective novel writer. Woman in White 1860. No Name 1862.

Collins, William. 1721-59. English pre-Romantic lyric poet. Ode to Simplicity.

Collodi, Carlo. 1826-90. Italian writer. Pinocchio.

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