Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wishes to grapple with more difficult French than anything yet mentioned, I should advise Theophile Gautier's Le Capitaine Fracasse...
...books most easily accessible by ourselves are Mr. Wright's edition of Malory's "History of King Arthur," and Mr. Furnival's edition of "Le Morte Arthur," by Gautier's Mapier, who wrote it as a conclusion to his account of the adventures of the Holy Graal. This last edition is valuable, because the Preface, and an essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge, contain much interesting matter relative to the history of these legends. From Mr. Furnival's Preface are derived most of the facts embodied in this article...