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Fleur and Blanchefleur, by Mrs. Leighton
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Title: Fleur and Blanchefleur
Author: Mrs. Leighton
Release Date: January 7, 2005 [EBook #14628]
Language: English
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The Sweet and Touching Tale of
FLEUR & BLANCHEFLEUR
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The Sweet and Touching Tale of FLEUR & BLANCHEFLEUR
A Mediæval Legend Translated from the French by Mrs. Leighton, with Thirty-seven Coloured Illustrations by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
[Illustration]
PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY DANIEL O'CONNOR, AT 90 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1. 1922
The Sweet and Touching Tale of
FLEUR & BLANCHEFLEUR
Chapter I
It is recorded by ancient chronicles that in the year of grace 624 a certain heathen King of Spain, Fenis by name, whose Queen was also a heathen, crossed over the sea with a mighty host into Christendom, and there, in the space of three days, made such havoc of the land, with destruction of towns, churches, and cloisters, that for full thirty miles from the shore where he had landed, not a human being or habitation was le