Chanson de Roland
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It is a suggestive fact that the French people's national epic, Chanson de Roland, glorifies its defeat in war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as they do not accept the Arthurian legends or the Chanson de Roland as historic fact, many classicists agree with Berve's thesis that Homer's poems are far from literal truth.
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Lovanium's classics-oriented curriculum is based on that of its parent school, Louvain of Belgium; thus first-year students plug away at medieval French, studying Le Chanson de Roland.
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"Epic" is the name for the body of old French poems which is headed by the Chanson de Roland.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
The most instructive, perhaps the only instructive, parallel is to be found in the French “chansons de geste,” of which the Chanson de Roland is the earliest and best example.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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