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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  # The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillane
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alain-Rene Lesage
  
  
  ##### Translated From The French By Tobias Smollett
  
  
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  THE AUTHOR'S DECLARATION.
  
  
  GIL BLAS TO THE READER.
  
  
  INTRODUCTION by WM. MORTON FULLERTON.
  
  
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  II
  
  
  III
  
  
  IV
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK THE FIRST.
  
  
    
  CH. I. -- The birth and education of Gil Blas.
  
  
    
  CH. II -- Gil Blas' alarm on his road to
  
  
  Pegnaflor; his adventures on his arrival in that town; and the
  
  
  character of the men with whom he supped.
  
  
    
  CH. III. -- The muleteer's temptation on the
  
  
  road; its consequences, and the situation of Gil Blas between Scylla
  
  
  and Charybdis.
  
  
    
  CH. IV. -- Description of the subterraneous
  
  
  dwelling and its contents.
  
  
    
  CH. V. -- The arrival of the banditti in the
  
  
  subterraneous retreat, with an account of their pleasant conversation.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CH. VI. -- The attempt of Gil Blas to escape, and
  
  
  its su