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In the "Song of Roland" rather curiously, considering that it is the first great piece of French literaturewoman plays absolutely no part at all; there is not a female figure which is more than a name, or which can be placed beside Roland and Oliver, Archbishop Turpin and the traitor Ganelon, and Charlemagne, the mighty emperor of the "barbe fleurie."
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'Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée.
Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893
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_à la barbe fleurie_, still full of heroic vigour.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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Sulpice’s builder emphasis as in the original: ‘I understand the truth,he has passed [il est passé], but also doinggood [en faisant le bien] to him, as well ashe of the flowery tomb [tombe fleurie].
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Sulpice’s builder emphasis as in the original: ‘I understand the truth,he has passed [il est passé], but also doinggood [en faisant le bien] to him, as well ashe of the flowery tomb [tombe fleurie].
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Sulpice’s builder emphasis as in the original: ‘I understand the truth,he has passed [il est passé], but also doinggood [en faisant le bien] to him, as well ashe of the flowery tomb [tombe fleurie].
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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"Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée.
Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893
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