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Excerpt from Partenopex De Blois: A Romance, in Four Cantos The romance of Partenopex, or rather an extract from it, made its first appearance in the Bibliotheque des Romans, um der the title of Partenuple de Blois, translated from a story in Spanish prose. M. Le Grand has, however, successfully esta blished the French origin of this work.* His own translation is made from a ms. Poem, in the library of St Germain-des Prés which he is at first inclined to consider as a produc tion of the 12th century: he afterwards, reasoning from a piece of internal evidence, revokes his first opinion, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.