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...choose his field, but it must usually be one in which he has already shown proficiency. The fellowships are offered in the universities, faculties and other institutions of higher learning in Paris, Aix-Marseille, Alger, Besancon, Bordeaux, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy, Poitiers, Rennes, Strasbourg or Toulouse. The candidate may designate his choice, but the Advisory Board strongly recommends the desirability of a period of residence in a provincial university as being the best place to acquire the language...
...gilt cross over the entrance to the library is a trophy from the siege of Strasbourg...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...