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Roland (died c. 778)

French hero. His real and legendary deeds of valour and chivalry inspired many medieval and later romances, including the 11th-century Chanson de Roland and Ariosto's Orlando furioso. A knight of Charlemagne, Roland was killed in 778 with his friend Oliver and the 12 peers of France at Roncesvalles (in the Pyrenees) by Basques. He headed the rearguard during Charlemagne's retreat from his invasion of Spain.

Roland

Opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully (libretto by Quinault). Produced at the Versailles court on 8 January 1685, its first Paris performance was on 8 March 1685. See Orlando by Handel for a plot synopsis.
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The Roland story is to France what the Arthur story is to us.
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Webster's Dictionary gives the meaning of the word 'miasma' as 'an infection floating in the air; a deadly exhalation'; and, in the opinion of Mr Robert Ferguson, his late employer, that description, though perhaps a little too flattering, on the whole summed up Master Roland Bean pretty satisfactorily.
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What he said had a hateful truth in it, and another defect of my character is that I enjoy the company of those, however depraved, who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.
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