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The Romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known As the Tale of Melusine - Couverture souple

Couldrette

 
9781104326890: The Romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known As the Tale of Melusine

Synopsis

The Romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine is a book written by Couldrette and first published in 1866. The book is a medieval romance that tells the story of Melusine, a fairy who marries a mortal man named Raymondin. Melusine is cursed to turn into a serpent from the waist down one day each week, and Raymondin is forbidden to see her during this time. The couple has many children together, and Melusine builds a castle for her family. However, Raymondin breaks the taboo and sees Melusine in her serpent form, causing her to leave him and their children forever. The book explores themes of love, loyalty, and the consequences of breaking taboos. It is considered a classic of medieval literature and has been adapted into various forms of media, including plays, operas, and films.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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