Chanson de Roland
Americannoun
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They'll copy out, illustrate, learn by heart and recite - in front of the class - poems ranging from La Chanson de Roland, an epic from the 11th Century, to poems written just a few months ago.
From BBC
Chanson de Roland, your position is absurd.
From New York Times
Just as Arthur was eclipsed by his companions, so Charlemagne’s vassal nobles, except in the Chanson de Roland, are exalted at the expense of the emperor, probably the result of the changed relations between the later emperors and their barons.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
The analogy of the French epic, the Chanson de Roland, favours the belief that there was some nucleus of fact.
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