La Chronique de Robert de Clari by Peter F. Dembowski PAPERBACK 9781442639850

La Chronique de Robert de Clari\nby Peter F. Dembowski\nPaperback\nFrench\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Peter F. Dembowski\nTitle: La Chronique de Robert de Clari\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: French\nTopic: European history: medieval period, middle ages\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1963\nISBN-13: 9781442639850\nISBN-10: 1442639857\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nRobert 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.\nProfessor Dembrows.