Richard the Lionheart and his confident Blondel of Nesle.

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Richard the Lionheart and Blondel of Nesle: Confident of Richard the Lionheart, poet and favourite trouvère of the king, Blondel of Nesle discovered, towards 1194, the old castle where Richard the Lionheart was enclosed by hearing him to sing a love song both had composed in the past. - Histoire Populaire de la France, Tome Premier, Ch. Lahure's Publication, circa 1860

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