Lexicographical Neighbors of Gestes
Literary usage of Gestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury (1892)
"THE CHANSONS DE gestes. THE earliest form which finished literature took in ...
These are the Chansons de gestes, so called from their dealing with the ..."
2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... having, in a bull dated 1092, given to the abbey of Confining ourselves to
France, we read in the Exploits of King Dagobert (gestes du Roi Dagobert) ..."
3. The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times. by Charles Mills (1825)
"... Archers The Black Prince Story of the King's Chivalry England regarded as the
Seat of Honour Instance of this Chivalric Heroes in this Reign The gestes ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"It is a mock-heroic piece, full of broad and extravagant pleasantries, and is
rather a loug fabliau tlian a time Chanson de gestes. Among the other chansons ..."
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