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unusual facts about Chanson de geste


Chanson de geste

Urban T. Holmes, Jr. A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300.


Claude Charles Fauriel

Fauriel had a preconceived and somewhat fanciful theory that Provence was the cradle of the chansons de geste and even of the Round Table romances; but he gave a great stimulus to the scientific study of Old French and Provençal.


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