Note 128 — BOOK VI[60]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Geoffroi de Villehardouin (circa 1160—circa 1215), the author of a famous chronicle: Histoire de la conquête de Constantinople, ou Chronique des empereurs Baudouin et Henri de Constantinople. Villehardouin's Chronicle is not only trustworthy from an historical point of view, but is even more deserving for its literary excellence, while being one of the oldest monuments of original French prose. The Fourth Crusade, in which Villehardouin took part, left Venice in October 1203.—T.