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    The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem...
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  • The Chanson de Guillaume, also called Chançun de Willame (English: "Song of William"), is a chanson de geste from the first half of the twelfth-century...
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    hero of an entire cycle of chansons de geste, the earliest of which is the Chanson de Guillaume of about 1140. In the chansons, he is nicknamed Fièrebrace...
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  • La Geste de Garin de Monglane is the second cycle of the three great cycles of chansons de geste created in the early days of the genre. It centres on...
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    d'Orange (literally "Taking of Orange"; also translated "The Capture of Orange" and "The Conquest of Orange") is a mid-12th century chanson de geste written...
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  • the best known of the chansons, the Chanson de Roland. La Geste de Garin de Monglane, whose central character was Guillaume d'Orange, identifiable with William...
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    Bernart, Guillaume, Garin, Hernaut, Beuve and Aymer), the most famous being Guillaume d'Orange, the hero of several popular chansons de geste. The "Aymeri"...
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  • Karlamagnús saga (category Chansons de geste)
    compilation and adaptation, made for Haakon V of Norway, of the Old French chansons de geste of the Matter of France dealing with Charlemagne and his paladins...
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  • Aliscans (category Chansons de geste)
    Aliscans is a chanson de geste of the late twelfth century. It recounts the story of the fictional battle of Aliscans (Alescans), a disastrous defeat of...
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    inspired in the chanson de geste, the Chanson de Guillaume: "Guillaume au Court-nez" (William the Short-Nosed) or its homophone "Guillaume au Cornet" (William...
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    Saracens. Chanson de Guillaume (c. 1100) Couronnement de Louis (1130) Charroi de Nîmes (1140) Prise d'Orange (1150?) Aliscans (1165) Aymeri de Narbonne...
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    origines de la chanson de geste Guillaume d’Orange : traditions historiques et légendaires musulmanes et chrétiennes autour de la razzia sarrasine de 793 en...
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    Looïs) is an anonymous twelfth-century Old French chanson de geste. It is sometimes attributed to Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube and dated 1137. The first modern...
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    is believed that the Chanson de Roland was sung at the Battle of Hastings, and some Anglo-Norman manuscripts of Chansons de geste have survived to this...
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    Cath Palug (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    chanson de geste. Chapalu is fought by the knight Rainouart in a late version of La Bataille Loquifer [fr] in the Guillaume d'Orange cycle (La Geste de...
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    the cycle of chansons concerning Guillaume (or William) of Orange, generally referred to collectively as the Geste de Guillaume d'Orange. The poem exists...
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  • adaptation on the Old French chanson de geste Narbonnais and eight other chansons concerning Aymeri de Narbonne and Guillaume d'Orange) [Le Storie d']Aspramonte...
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    in Li coronemenz Looïs, a 12th-century Old French chanson de geste. In the chanson, Guillaume d'Orange saves Rome from a Saracen siege by defeating a Saracen...
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    Philip E; Kerr, Alexander; Société Rencesvals (1984). Guillaume d'Orange and the chanson de geste : essays presented to Duncan McMillan in celebration...
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    Castilian epic poem about El Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, is written. (Approximate). The Chanson de Guillaume, a chanson de geste about William of Gellone, is written...
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    at Théâtre de l'Odéon on 5 April 1897. Psyché : poème dramatique en trois actes, Paris, Mercure de France, 1913. Guillaume d'Orange : geste en cinq actes...
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