Transcription. A four-panel meme.
Person A: “I’m an expert in French history.”
Person B: “Oh yeah? Name 15 kings.”
Person A: “Louis.”
Person B: “That’s on me, I set the bar too low.”
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Clovis is also the modern French rendition of that name. In Old Frankish it was something like Chlodowig. Hence why king Louis is called Lodewijk in Dutch and Ludwig in German.
I knew for Clovis, but didn’t for Chlodowig.
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Also in french, it evoled into two names : Clovis from the latin prononciation become Louis, losing the c, and making (the latin way) v and u the same. Chlodowig, losing Ch and shifting from w to v become Ludovic.
It comes from the Old German Hlutwik (various possible spelling) meaning "Famous warrior". Polish language even have two versions of it - Ludwik straight from German and Alojzy from French.