Le dernier des Mérovingiens - Evariste-Vital Luminais -Joconde

this is compelling in a lot of ways.

this is Childeric III, the last puppet merovingian. the mark of merovingian kingship was--quite uncommonly in history--the longest hair. he is being shorn and involuntarily entered into monastery, a treatment common to defeated claimants to the merovingian kingship. he was the last, though, so there's a finality to it