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Macaire

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Macaire, title often assigned to a French medieval epic poem, or chanson de geste, after one of its chief characters. Blanchefleur, wife of the aged and infirm emperor Charlemagne, having repulsed the advances of Macaire, is accused of infidelity and sentenced to perpetual exile. Ultimately her innocence is proved, she pardons her husband, and is reunited with him. The same story was developed in another chanson, known as La Reine Sebile, the text of which has been reconstructed from 13th-century fragments discovered in England, Belgium, and Switzerland. This poem was the basis for a popular Spanish prose romance called the ...(100 of 177 words)

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