VILLE-HARDOUIN

CONQUETE DE CONSTANTINOPLE

VILLE-HARDOUIN, Geoffroi

Paris, 1882

Troisième edition

The best work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c.1150-c.1213/18) written between 1207 and 1213. This works is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose, and thaught not written from an entirely objective point of view, is an essential historical text, by a contemporaneous participant of the fourth crusade.