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The Siege of Paris - by the Saracens
Comfort, W. W. | January 11, 1919 issue

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Of all the sieges which have been actually laid to Paris, France during the last two thousand years, none can compare for literary treatment with one that never took place at all-the siege of Paris by the Saracens. None has made such an impression upon the imagination of men, and consequently upon poetical tradition, as has been made by the legendary attack of the Infidels. This attack is presented with all the wealth of detail and circumstance which one could desire in an historical event. The amount of space devoted to it and the number of references to it far outreach the popular allusions to any of the historical sieges of the Middle Ages.

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PARIS (France) -- History; SIEGE warfare; FORTIFICATION; MIDDLE age; ISLAMIC Empire; PARIS (France); FRANCE
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