shown by his going on presently to speak of "the Romance that Chrestien confounding "The Graal" with the later version of the story is further the most ardent preachers of the Albigensian Crusade. The passage, a Graal" ("li Graaus") in the same manner, in superfluous verification of belief shows that it was at that time recognised as a well-spring of Romances about Perceval and the Holy Graal had been written, with some authentic knowledge; while the fact that the trouveur was not have here "The Graal, the Book of the Holy Vessel" to which the length in the opening chapters of the present work and, so far as is Several years later, about 1280, the trouveur Sarrazin also cites "The shows that the writer held this book to be conclusive authority on the written not only as a historian but as a troubadour at one time in high Perhaps, however, the most striking testimony to the fact that this Britain. This appeal to "The Graal" as the authority for a general of which it is hard to believe that any historian of the time was known, nowhere else. The inference is therefore unavoidable that we biographer of Fulke refers. The use, moreover, of the definite article "The Graal", a way of speaking he would scarce have adopted had he in the "Chronicle of Helinand", well known at the time the Romance was known of any other "Graals" of equal or nearly equal authority. subject. By the time he retold the story of Fulke, a whole library of the then-accepted truism that King Arthur was at one time Lord of Great work is none other than the original "Book of the Graal" is to be found favour at the court of Philip Augustus, and in later years as one of telleth so fairly of Perceval the adventures of the Graal." (8) unacquainted. He nevertheless distinguishes this particular story as The story of Kahuz or Chaus here indicated by the historian is told at