Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880). 2 autograph manuscripts of his - Lot 246

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Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880). 2 autograph manuscripts of his - Lot 246
Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880). 2 autograph manuscripts of historical notes, one signed at the head; 11 pages in-4 under folder in-fol. with autograph title, and 4 pages in-fol. * Historical notes on the second period of the Middle Ages. Crusades. - Orders of chivalry": reading notes based on the "Eclaircissements sur les ordres de chevalerie" published as an appendix to volume III of the Histoire des Croisades by Joseph-François Michaud (1841), p. 183 ff , about the Orders of Knighthood of Saint Lazarus, the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, the Knights Templar and the Teutons, with quotations from verses by Guiot de Provins ("Molt sont prodome li Templiers / Là se rendent li chevaliers / Qui ont ce siècle assovoré / Et ont tot vou et tout tasté") and others taken from a handwritten chronicle following Fauvel's Roman. - This is followed by notes on the "Influence of the Crusades", no doubt taken from the same work, and touching on civil status, the "progress of the Enlightenment" and discoveries, trade and industry. In a few lines: "Chivalry is the ideal of feudalism. - It is the Crusades that establish and constitute them. Chivalry is the dream of the Middle Ages the personification of all things is very beautiful all the famous feats of arms the brilliant exploits are linked to one man Roland, Arthur is really the opposite of the Middle Ages which sacrifices unity to generality. Indeed in history no one goes out of the ordinary line everything is uniform - everything is for the benefit. The knight, on the contrary, acts only for his lady and his God " . * This is how Robert Wace talks about this ploy. Reading notes from a story from Normandy, about a ploy of the Viking King Hasting, who, claiming to be dying, had himself baptized, put on beer, and carried to the town he wanted to take over, where he was given a grand funeral. Then Hastings rising from his ale "cries out at once, he killed the bishop, he crushed his godfather's head as if he w
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