Exposé Sur Le Grand Meaulnes

differences, as explanations of the loss of purpose. Not all history dealt with the Orient, however. Robert de Clari’s Anglo-Norman Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal (1219–26) used eye-witness evidence to cover British history between 1186 and 1219. Les Grandes Chroniques de France, a vast sequence originating in the thirteenth century and continuing into the sixteenth, began by recycling old myths but later used documents and written testimony to tell the nation’s history. Jean Froissart (1337–1404?) also

astrologer to offer a more favorable view, and the wedding took place. When Rajam died of typhoid five years later, in 1939, he was heartbroken and refused even to consider remarriage for the rest of his very long life. He claimed that he did not want to expose another woman to his unlucky destiny; but Narayan was not a superstitious man, and it seems probable that in reality he simply did not believe he could ever love another woman as deeply as he had Rajam. His devotion to her is movingly depicted in