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is very valuable, in spite of the exaggerations with which it teems. It is 



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the false Chronicle of Archbishop Turpin, which, though looked upon as 

 reliable in the Middle Ages, is a tissue of falsehood. This latter Chronicle, 

 attributed to the Archbishop of Rheims, who holds such a prominent place in 



