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Three generations of them were really great men — Robert the Strong, Odo, and Hugh the White; and when the descendants of Charles the Great had died out, a Duke of the Franks, Hugh Capet, was in 987 crowned King of the Franks. All the after kings of France down to Louis Philippe were children and grandchildren of Hugh Capet. By this change, however, he gained little in real power; for, though he claimed to rule over the whole country of the Neustrian Franks, his authority was little heeded, save in the domain which he had possessed as Count of Paris, including the cities of Paris, Orleans, Amiens, and Rheims (the coronation place). He was guardian, too, of the great Abbeys of St. Denys and St. Martin of Tours. The Duke of Normandy and the Count of Anjou to the West, the Count of Flanders to the North, the Count of Champagne to the East, and the Duke of Aquitaine to the South, paid him homage, but were the only actual rulers in their own domains.

According to the passage, in which year was Huge Capet crowned as the King of the Franks?

  1. 977

  2. 987

  3. 997

  4. None of these

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The line 'Duke of the Franks, Hugh Capet, was in 987 crowned King of the Franks' suggests the answer.