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mid-13th century. France. Anonymous verse chronicle in Old French particularly concerned with Reims and North Eastern France. Known by its modern title only since the 1876 edition, this prose chronicle remains mysterious. It is an excerpt from a longer work, with neither a proper beginning nor ending. Written, or at least written down in the form in which it survives, in 1260/1 - as is clear from the subject-matter, it presents a richly gossipy amalgam of fact and fiction of the preceding 80 years or so of …