Charlemagne’s Stature.  We are told that Charlemagne was “eight feet high,” and so strong that he could “straighten with his hands alone three horseshoes at once.”  His diet and his dress were both as simple as possible.

Charlemagne’s Sword, La Joyeuse.

CHARLEMAGNE OF SERVIA, Stephen Dushan.

CHARLES “the Bold,” duke of Burgundy, introduced by sir W. Scott in two novels, viz., Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein. The latter novel contains an account of the battle of Nancy, where Charles was slain.

Charles prince of Wales (called “Babie Charles"), son of James I., introduced by sir W. Scott in The Fortunes of Nigel.

Charles “the Good,” earl of Flanders.  In 1127 he passed a law that whoever married a serf should become a serf:  thus if a prince married a serf, the prince would become a serf.  This absurd law caused his death, and the death of the best blood in Bruges.—­S.  Knowles, The Provost of Bruges (1836).

CHARLES II. of England, introduced by sir W. Scott in two novels, viz., Peveril of the Peak and Woodstock.  In this latter he appears first as a gipsy woman, and afterwards under the name of Louis Kerneguy (Albert Lee’s page).

CHARLES IX. of France.  Instigated by his mother, Catherine de Medici, he set on foot the massacre of St. Bartholomew (1550-1574).

CHARLES XII. of Sweden.  “Determined to brave the seasons, as he had done his enemies, Charles XII. ventured to make long marches during the cold of the memorable winter of 1709.  In one of these marches two thousand of his men died from the cold.”

(Planche has an historical drama, in two acts, called Charles XII.; and the Life of Charles XII., by Voltaire, is considered to be one of the best written historical works in the French language.)

CHARLES EDWARD [STUART], called “The Chevalier Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender,” introduced by sir W. Scott in Redgauntlet (time, George III.), first as “father Bonaventure,” and afterwards as “Pretender to the British crown.”  He is again introduced in Waverley (time, George II.).

CHARLES EMMANUEL, son of Victor Amade’us (4 syl.) king of Sardinia.  In 1730 his father abdicated, but somewhat later wanted his son to restore the crown again.  This he refused to do; and when Victor plotted against him, D’Orme’a was sent to arrest the old man, and he died.  Charles was brave, patient, single-minded, and truthful.—­R.  Browning, King Victor and King Charles, etc.

CHARLES KNOLLYS, an English bridegroom, who falls into a crevasse on his wedding-trip, and is found by his wife in the ice, still young and beautiful in his icy shroud, forty-five years later.—­J.  S. of Dale (Frederic Jesup Stimson), Mrs. Knollys (1888).

CHARLEY, plu. Charlies, an old watchman or “night guardian,” before the introduction of the police force by sir Robert Peel, in 1829.  So called from Charles I., who extended and improved the police system.