Les Énérves de Jumièges, by Evariste-Vital Luminais, 1880. Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, France. According to legend, when two of Clovis II’s sons dared to rise up against him, he had them hamstrung and set adrift in the Seine.

Les Énérves de Jumièges, by Evariste-Vital Luminais, 1880. Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, France. According to legend, when two of Clovis II’s sons  dared to rise up against him, he had them hamstrung and set adrift in the Seine.