Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
as cited in Renoir, my Father, Jean Renoir; p. 124; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 83 + 94
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“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”
Canto 1, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
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“Then were they afeard when they saw a knight.”
Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur
Book I, ch. 23
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
