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Updated: May 21, 2025
This great work bleak, bare, gaunt, majestic stands out, to the readers of to-day, like some huge mass of ancient granite on the far horizon of the literature of France. While the Chansons de Geste were developing in numerous cycles of varying merit, another group of narrative poems, created under different influences, came into being.
It may rather be considered a systematic series of essays, beginning with the "Chansons de Geste," analyzing several poems of the cycle of Charlemagne, and followed by successive independent chapters on the Middle Ages, the revival of letters, and modern times down to the Revolution.
It appeared, then, that 'three single ballads are found in manuscript, which cannot be later than the fourteenth century. There is also a poem of considerable length, entitled The Lytel Geste of Robyn Hood, which was printed by Winkyn de Worde, in or about the year 1495.
The beau geste, the beautiful act, which ennobles all men, not merely the doer of the deed, that is what France is giving the world. The image of men who are more than efficient and strong and physically courageous, of men who are filled with a divine spirit of sacrifice and devotion. Truly supermen. Chivalry was a trait of the Old France as it is of the New.
The heroes of our chansons de geste are really the authorized representatives and types of the society of their time, and not those fine adventure-seeking individuals who have been so brilliantly sketched by the pencil of Crétien de Troyes. It is true, however, that this charming and delicate spirit did not give, in his works, an accurate idea of his century and generation.
The dresser loudly acclaimed Madame's action as a beau geste. "In these days of advertisement one can't afford to be so modest, mon general," said he. "And I, for example, who committed the stupidity of asking whether you had served in the war! To-night we are going to see something quite different." Andrew laughed.
In moments of encouragement Agamemnon is a valiant fighter, few better spearmen, yet "he attains not to the first Three," Achilles, Aias, Diomede. It is guided at once by feudal allegiance and feudal jealousy, like the Chansons de Geste and the early sagas or romances of Ireland.
The actual existence of such a group of tales as those referred to by Wauchier derives confirmation from our surviving Gawain poems, as well as from the references in the Elucidation, and on the evidence at our disposal I have ventured to suggest the hypothesis of a group of poems, dealing with the adventures of Gawain, his son, and brother, the ensemble being originally known as The Geste of Syr Gawayne, a title which, in the inappropriate form The Jest of Sir Gawain, is preserved in the English version of that hero's adventure with the sister of Brandelis.
In the French tale of "Le Chevalier au Cygne," as told in the "Chansons de geste," you may read the story of Helyas, who was one of seven children of King Oriant and Queen Beatrix, who were born with silver chains around their necks. The chains being removed with evil purpose, the children turned into swans and flew away all but one, Helyas, who was absent at the time.
But even to her I couldn't owe my position in the British Army." "Did you tell her so?" "I did." I pictured the scene, knowing my Auriol. I could see the pride in her dark eyes and masterful lips. His renunciation had in it that of the beau geste which she secretly adored. It put the final stamp on the man. Upon this little emotional outburst he left, promising to dine with me the next day.
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