Siege of Paris by the Vikings in the year 885

Paris sustains, the year 885, a cruel siege of eleven months against the Normans. The Parisians, commanded by Eudes, Count of Paris, son of Robert the Strong, Duke of France and Count of Anjou, and Bishop Gozlin, heroically defend their city.
Eudes, seeing the exhausted, pierces the enemy lines, joins the Emperor Charles the Fat, asks him for reinforcements and then returns to lock himself behind the walls of the city. Soon the sovereign appears at the head of 40,000 men-at-arms but does not fight. He preferred to negotiate, at a high price, the invader's retreat and abandon Burgundy to his fury.
Outraged by the cowardice of Charles the Fat, the nobles and the bishops deposed him will elect Eudes as king.

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