Le Portrait De Maxime De Trailles Le Père Goriot

invention makes the cycle des croisades, begun in the twelfth century and alleged to retrace the life of Godefroi de Bouillon (d. 1100), a variant of hagiographic fiction. Although Latin sources were used in the thirteenth century for less fanciful portraits of classical figures like Alexander, Hector and Julius Caesar, both chronicle and historical biography were committed to the general apocryphal and hortatory approach to all kinds of writing. The Histoire de Saint Louis (1309) of Jean de Joinville