Editing Charles the Bald (section)

==Burial and succession==
According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of [[Nantua]], [[Burgundy]], because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body. A few years later, his remains were transferred to the [[Abbey of Saint-Denis]] where he had long wished to be buried,<ref>{{citation|title=Rituals of Powers: From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages|editor=Frans Theuws, Janet Laughland Nelson|page=164}}</ref> in a [[Porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] tub<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Belin|page=412|title=La France avant la France, (481–888)|author1=Geneviève Bührer-Thierry|author2=Charles Mériaux|date=2010|location=Paris}}</ref> which may be the same one known as "[[Dagobert I|Dagobert]]'s tub" (''cuve de Dagobert''), now in the [[Louvre]].<ref>{{cite web|website=Musée du Louvre|title=Cuve dite 'de Dagobert '|url=http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not&idNotice=28786}}</ref> It was recorded that there was a memorial brass there that was melted down at the Revolution.

Charles was succeeded by his son, [[Louis the Stammerer|Louis]]. Charles was a prince of education and letters, a friend of the church, and conscious of the support he could find in the episcopate against his unruly nobles, for he chose his councillors from among the higher clergy, as in the case of [[Guenelon of Sens]], who betrayed him, and of [[Hincmar of Reims]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=898}}