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Louis was the last ruler of a unified Frankish empire. Already in the last years of his reign the empire was going through a serious crisis. After his death, the war between the sons continued. As a result, after the Battle of Fontenay (841) was signed Treaty of Verdun 843, records section of the empire into 3 kingdoms: the West-Frankish (later France), the East Frankish (later Germany), and median, in turn, soon dissolved into 3 parts . But the empire, though now consisted of independent kingdoms, for some time continued to be a single state. Its part of a rule, children and grandchildren of Louis. Later, there were permanent partition and repartition of land, the kingdom increasingly dissociated. At the end of IX century in the lands that were part of the empire of Charlemagne, there were 7 The Kingdom: West Francia and East Francia, Italian, Upper Burgundy, Lower Burgundy and Pamplonskoe. In addition to the kingdom (This was particularly noticeable in the West Frankish kingdom) formed Entities whose rulers behave as independent rulers.
In 884 the empire for a short time was reunited in the hands of the grandson of Louis, Charles III of Tolstoy, but in 888, the final split occurred.
Compared with the era of his predecessor (Charlemagne) and successor (Charles II the Bald), time of Louis the Pious observed decline of activity in the sphere of literature and art, which is associated with particular attention to the emperor's ecclesiastical aspects of culture. But his government has given the world the works of such prominent figures as the Carolingian Renaissance Agobard Lyon, Valafrida Strabo, Jonas of Orleans, Pashaziya Radberta, Nitharda and others.
Many of the manuscripts, decorated with beautiful miniatures, were real works of art (for example, the Gospel Ebbo). Louis the Pious to take measures to continue to operate the school, based at his father, just took care of raising the general level of knowledge of the clergy and government officials. The construction of temples and monasteries