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Charlemagne's archbishop in the Chanson de Roland and other chansons de geste, and alleged author of the Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin. This immensely popular mid-12th-c. Latin prose text, purporting to give an eyewitness account of Charlemagne's Spanish campaigns, was subsequently translated and adapted into French prose in the early 13th c.

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