Excerpt from L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte: Histoire en Vers de la Troisième Croisade (1190-1192)
Voir la Revue des Sociétés savantes, 5' sér., t. VI p. 93. Un extrait du rapport de M. Meyer a été inséré dans la Romania, t. II p. 381.
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