 Yitzhak Hen stated that it seems certain that the Gallo-Roman population was far greater than the Frankish population in Merovingian Gaul, especially in regions south of the Seine, with most of the Frankish settlements being located along the Lower and Middle Rhine.The further south in Gaul one traveled, the weaker the Frankish influence became.Hen finds hardly any evidence for Frankish settlements south of the Loire.