title: A Critical Edition of Girart D'Amiens: L'Istoire Le Roy Charlemaine (Studies in French Literature) (English and Old French Edition)
author: Daniel Metraux
description: "The publication of this edition of Girart d'Amiens L'Istoire le roy Charlemaine marks one of the more fortuitous events in the study of medieval French epic literature....During the past century at least four other scholars, including this writer, had announced their intention to produce such an edition and then abandoned the task for various reasons, primarily the enormity of the task. Where four others had tried and failed to produce an edition, Daniel Metraux succeeded, working from microfilm copies of the three manuscripts in his self-appointed task, and we are the richer for his efforts....This edition is a monument to Girart d'Amiens and to epic literature in general." - John Robin Allen, Saint John's College, University of Manitoba"
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  # Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Francois Christophe
  
  
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  “Work crowned by the French Academy” is a significant line borne by
  
  
  the title-page of the original edition of Messieurs Cerfberr and
  
  
  Christophe's monumental work. The motto indicates the high esteem in
  
  
  which the French authorities hold this very necessary adjunct to the
  
  
  great Balzacian structure. And even without this word of approval, the
  
  
  intelligent reader needs but a glance within the pages of the _
  
  
  Repertory of the Comedie Humaine_ to convince him at once 