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  • In the "Song of Roland" —rather curiously, considering that it is the first great piece of French literature—woman 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."

    X. The Ancient Irish Sagas 1913

  • 'Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée.

    Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

  • _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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée.

    Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

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