La Chronique de Robert de Clari: Etude de la Langue Et Du Style [French]

by Peter F. Dembowski

Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in French, neither translated from Latin nor resulting from "prosification" of verse-compositions.

Professor Dembrowski's study is a close analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1442639857
• ISBN13: 9781442639850
• Release Date: December 1963
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"