Chanson de Roland
Americannoun
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a suggestive fact that the French people's national epic, Chanson de Roland, glorifies its defeat in war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other versions of the story have come down to us; on which see Gaston Paris's Introduction to his "Extraits de la Chanson de Roland," 1893, 4th ed.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
We shall find St. Francis often making allusions to the tales of the Round Table and the Chanson de Roland.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour
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