The Days of Chivalry
The Days of Chivalry by Quatrelles is available here as the complete text, split into 758 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Days of Chivalry by Quatrelles. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #44428.
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The Days of Chivalry
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Charlemagne
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV Charlemagne’s Cortege
- Chapter V How Ganelon, Count of Mayence, Was Nearly Smoked in The
- Chapter VI Angoulaffre of the Brazen Teeth, Governor of Jerusalem
- Chapter VII Murad’s Three Whims
- Chapter VIII A Formidable Friend
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI Angoulaffre the Merciful!
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII The Last Will and Testament of Angoulaffre
- Chapter XIV The Two Rogues Released
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII A Funeral March
- Chapter XVIII How Croquemitaine Was Christened
- Chapter XIX The King of Beauty,
- Chapter XX How the Emperor Charlemagne Saw a Vision
- Chapter XXI How King Marsillus Saw a Vision
- Chapter XXII The Two Alcaldes
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV The Trap
- Chapter XXV How Roland Undertook to Carry Saragossa by Storm
- Chapter XXVI A Trip to Mahomet’s Paradise
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX The Sign of the Crocodile
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII Shoulder to Shoulder, Face to Face!
- Chapter XXXIV Mitaine Opens the Campaign
- Chapter XXXV Through the Forests
- Chapter XXXVI A Night in the Fortress of Fear
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