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Palaye, p. 30 (16  January  1812) Possibly one of the following already recorded in WG's diary:
On 1801-05-14:
Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de La Curne deMémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie. (2 volumes) 1719
WG cites in his biography of Chaucer:
St. Palaye, Memoires sur l'Ancienne Chevalerie, Partie II (1:25).
WG's sale catalog lists:
Sainte Palaye, Mémoires sur l'ancienne Chevalerie, 3 vol. Paris, 1781 (item 639).
OR
On 1807-04-18:
Sainte-Palaye, M. de La Curne deDobson, Susannah (editor)The literary history of the troubadours. Containing their lives, extracts from their works, and many particulars relative to the customs, morals, and history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Collected and abridged from the French, by the author of the Life of Petrarch [Susannah Dobson]. 1779; republished in 1807.

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