STC169722 Clothaire II, King of the Franks (584-628) is beseeched by his wife Bertrude (d.620) to spare the lives of several conspirators, engraved by Jean Baptiste Morret (fl.1790-1820), 1791 (colour litho) by Swebach, Jacques Francois Joseph (1769-1823) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Patrice Alethee plotted to kill the king and marry the queen; Bertrude told the king and he pardoned the conspirators;); The Stapleton Collection; French, out of copyright.